AI could kick start a nuclear war by 2040, according to a report published by the RAND Corporation, a US policy and defence think tank. The report describes several scenarios where the technology could be used to track and target the launch of nuclear weapons, and the intelligence gathered by AI can be used to inform decisions about the use of weapons of mass destruction in the future. But there is danger in using AI to retaliate against attacks. Adversary nations might interpret the move as a "first-strike threat" or a "doomsday machine". These machines are programmed to recognize and get back at aggressive enemy behavior.

The American security agency CIA knows that the future can't go without artificial intelligence. The agency was all over the news last year because of Wikileaks which published their collection of hacking tools. CIA wants to deal with foreign spies, not human but AI-powered spies tracking CIA agents deployed overseas. An effective countermeasure would be using technology instead of humans to get the required intel. At a conference in Florida, CIA's Science and Technology division deputy director Dawn Meyerriecks talked about their AI developments without going into the details.

Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov settled into the commander's chair in a secret bunker outside Moscow. His job that night was simple: Monitor the computers that were sifting through data from satellites and radar, watching the United States for any sign of a missile launch. It was just after midnight, Sept. 26, 1983. A single word flashed on the screen in front of him. The fear that computers, by mistake or malice, might lead humanity to the brink of nuclear annihilation has haunted imaginations since the earliest days of the Cold War.

Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov settled into the commander's chair in a secret bunker outside Moscow. His job that night was simple: Monitor the computers that were sifting through data from satellites and radar, watching the United States for any sign of a missile launch. It was just after midnight, Sept. 26, 1983. A single word flashed on the screen in front of him. The fear that computers, by mistake or malice, might lead humanity to the brink of nuclear annihilation has haunted imaginations since the earliest days of the Cold War.

This week the House of Lord's Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI) released a report stressing that ethics should be at the centre of AI – a report which has so far been welcomed by the IT industry. In July 2017 a 13 strong Committee was tasked to assess the economic and social impact of artificial intelligence. The aim of the cross-sector code of practice is to ensure AI is developed ethically and does not diminish the rights and opportunities of humans. The report states that AI should be developed for the "common good and benefit of humanity" and operate on principles of "intelligibility and fairness". See also: Is your artificial intelligence right for you?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) greets a robot next to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (2ndR), his wife Angelica Rivera (2ndL) and German Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek (L) on April 23, 2018 as they visit the IBG Automation stand during the Hanover Fair in Hanover, Germany. The Hanover Fair is the biggest industrial fair worldwide and runs until April 28, 2018, with Mexico as this year's partner country.

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A devastating nuclear war that wipes out humanity could be brought about by artificial intelligence as soon as 2040, a leading security think tank has warned. Advances leading to'doomsday AI' machines could encourage nations to take apocalyptic risks with their nuclear arsenals, it claims. During the Cold War, a condition called mutually assured destruction (Mad) maintained an uneasy peace between the superpowers. Both sides of the conflict had little incentive to launch a nuclear attack, as it would have been met by a devastating retaliation that destroyed them. However, advances in AI may mean that this is no longer guaranteed, opening up the potential of taking out an enemy's ability to counter attack - and there may be no way to prevent such a future.

TEL AVIV, Israel and NEW YORK and LANCASTER, Pa., April 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Aspire Universal announced the establishment of the Aspire Ventures Precision Medicine Fund (AVP) to accelerate innovation for personalized devices and medical practices. Precision medicine is one of the most important transformations ever to come to medicine, and by shifting away from one-size-fits-all solutions, precision medicine offers personalized solutions that deliver better experiences and better outcomes at a lower cost. The AVP invests in devices and therapies that leverage AI and IoT to deliver affordable solutions at a massive scale that take into account each individual's DNA, microbiome, biochemistry, and lifestyle. The mission of the AVP is to transform and improve population health by leveraging AI and IoT to develop cutting-edge precision medicine technologies that could have a national, or even global, impact. The fund aims to achieve this goal by greatly accelerating the time-to-market for highly innovative and transformative personalized healthcare solutions – which are the foundation of precision medicine – while maximizing the potential market success rate of those solutions.

The Army Research Laboratory's next robot weapon isn't a new predator drone or even a robot dog like the infamous prototype developed by Boston Labs. Instead, it's a "self-aware" robot built from flexible materials inspired by invertebrates like squid, the Army Times reports. But in addition to its advance machine-learning capabilities, the material used to build the robots is so lightweight and malleable that soldiers will be able to "print" the robots on the battlefield, the control them with controllers that send electric currents through the materials. In case you weren't already terrified of robots that can jump over walls, fly or crawl, Army researchers are developing your next nightmare – a flexible, soft robot inspired by squid and other invertebrates. And they want soldiers to be able to use 3D printers to make them on the battlefield.