Regulators hope that this will lead to fewer drones flying over airports and otherwise causing havoc in British skies. A drone weighing around 400 g (0.88lbs) can crack the windscreen of a helicopter, while all but the heaviest drones will have trouble cracking the windscreen of an airliner (and then only at speeds you'd expect beyond the airport). While you might not cause as much chaos as some have feared, you could still create a disaster using a compact drone. It's nothing new to register drones, of course, and it doesn't appear to have dampened enthusiasm in the US.

The House of Lords has launched a public inquiry into advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The House of Lords said on Wednesday that the new Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence will "consider the economic, ethical, and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence." AI is set to bring about major changes to the way humans live and work. Well-known scientists and entrepreneurs such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have warned about the potential dangers superintelligent AI presents.

A new plan from the top of the Chinese government calls for the country to become a powerhouse in artificial intelligence in just over a decade.

NASA is forever linked to space, a plucky government agency bravely hurtling people and robots into the great beyond. Yet the agency has always had as much of an earth-bound mission as an outer space one. The "Aeronautics" at NASA may get short shrift, but with 300 videos of archival aviation tests released online this week, there's plenty of airborne excitement waiting for viewers. There are drop tests of the X-1, the first plane to break the speed of sound in level flight.

The Library of Congress has made 25 digital catalog records available for anyone at no charge. Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a particular author. Or locate serials, music or maps. You would use a library catalog that includes facts – like title, author, publication date, subject headings and genre.

On Saturday, the UK government posted new rules governing the use of drones weighing over 250 grams (about half a pound), with input from the Department for Transport, the Civil Aviation Authority, and the Military Aviation Authority. The guidelines state that drone users will have to register their devices and undergo safety awareness testing to ensure that they're aware of UK security, privacy, and safety rules. "By registering drones, introducing safety awareness tests to educate users we can reduce the inadvertent breaching of airspace restrictions." "By registering drones, introducing safety awareness tests to educate users we can reduce the inadvertent breaching of airspace restrictions to protect the public."

The battle between cyber criminals and banks is an intensifying arms race. Cyber criminals are racing to develop new offensive weapons while the banks and insurers they are targeting are scrambling to keep pace. Financial institutions are increasingly deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and other early-stage AI technologies to the front lines, identifying the behavior of trustworthy users and detecting emerging threats. However, much cutting-edge software in areas such as machine learning and AI is open-sourced, meaning that it is readily available to the wrong side. Hackers and criminals deploy advanced technology with little effort or cost involved, using advanced search functions, for example, to find and attack vulnerable machines.

Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the West, but China seems determined to own its future. Its rising AI community just got a tremendous shot in the arm, in the form of a massive new government investment plan. The State Council of the People's Republic of China has announced a bold scheme (link in Chinese) meant to build an AI industry worth $150 billion, and to make China the global leader in the field by 2030. Details of the plan are sure to cause consternation among policymakers, business leaders, and entrepreneurs in the U.S., especially as funding for research is slashed by a science-averse Trump administration. It will also, inevitably, stoke concerns about China's military ambitions, given the role AI is expected to play in the evolution of warfare. In truth, however, China's AI ascendancy is already well under way.

One of the biggest problems with Washington is that more often than not the policy conversation isn't grounded in the facts. We see this dysfunction clearly on technology policy, where Congress is largely uninformed on what the future of artificial intelligence (AI) technology will look like and what the actual consequences are likely to be. In this factual vacuum, we run the risk of ultimately adopting at best irrelevant or at worst extreme legislative responses. That's why I was particularly interested to see the comments by Tesla CEO Elon Musk to the National Governors Association that "AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization." Musk is a tremendous innovator and someone who understands technology deeply, and while I don't agree with his assessment, his dramatic statement is a challenge to lawmakers to start seriously examining this topic.

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