GRAUBUNDEN, SWITZERLAND – If your job involves inputting reams of data for a company, you might want to think about retraining in a more specialized field. After industrial robots and international trade put paid to many manufacturing jobs in the West, millions of white-collar workers could now be under threat from new technology such as artificial intelligence. The issue of how best to face up to this "Fourth Industrial Revolution" has been exercising politicians and business leaders this week at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos. The progress of AI has been "staggering" in recent years, said Vishal Sikka, chief executive of Indian IT services giant Infosys. "But in many ways we are at the beginning of this evolution and we face the prospect of leaving a larger part of humanity behind than in any other (industrial) advance," he warned.

So far, testing autonomous vehicles on city streets has had mixed results. Uber's plan did not go over well in the company's hometown of San Francisco, but cities like Phoenix and Boston have been a little more receptive to the idea. Now, to solve some of those bureaucratic headaches and foster a little more collaboration at the same time, the US Department of Transportation has laid out 10 autonomous vehicle proving grounds where research teams, automakers and startups can try out their technology before it hits the streets. According to US DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx, the proving grounds will provide more than just the physical roads to drive on -- they'll also form a community where new findings can be shared between the participants. "The designated proving grounds will collectively form a Community of Practice around safe testing and deployment," Foxx said in a statement.

This piece was coauthored with Megan Beck, Chief Insights Officer at OpenMatters, and Steven Cracknell, advisor to OpenMatters. When we examine and value companies, we use a lens that is more than five hundred years old. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which dates back to a Venetian Friar who lived in 1500 AD, has long been the determinant of what we how society measures value. According to this now global standard, things and money are valuable assets. People and ideas, and their development, are expenses.

Cybersecurity was the virtual elephant in the showroom at this month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Attendees of the annual tech trade show, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, relished the opportunity to experience a future filled with delivery drones, autonomous vehicles, virtual and augmented reality and a plethora of "Internet of things" devices, including fridges, wearables, televisions, routers, speakers, washing machines and even robot home assistants. Given the proliferation of connected devices--already, there are estimated to be at least 6.4 billion--there remains the critical question of how to ensure their security. The cybersecurity challenge posed by the internet of things is unique. The scale of connected devices magnifies the consequences of insecurity.

In the final months of the Obama White House, I was honored to be invited by the President's National Economic Council to discuss the recent report, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy. I was joined by several other venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to comment on how the tech community sees AI -- its potential for positive impact as well as the implications for our workforce. As a VC at NextWorld Capital, a big area of my investment focus is on the companies that are digitizing and automating the physical world, including drones, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence. As an undergraduate and graduate student at MIT studying AI in the late 90's, I saw the commercial potential of technologies such as computer vision and robotics, but now I am convinced that AI is ready to drive systemic changes to businesses and services of all kinds. This new wave of technology will have an outsized impact on what I call the "field office," operated by deskless workers are building and servicing physical goods.

The "Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) analyzed mileage and airbag deployment data supplied by Tesla for all [model years] 2014 through 2016 Model S and 2016 Model X vehicles equipped with the Autopilot Technology Package, either installed in the vehicle when sold or through an update, to calculate crash rates by miles travelled prior to and after Autopilot installation," NHTSA stated in its report, explaining its methodology.

Uber is pulling its self-driving cars from California roads after state regulators demanded special permits. SAN FRANCISCO -- Uber has agreed to pay $20 million for exaggerating how much its drivers could earn and encouraging them to lease cars through a'low-cost' program the government says was anything but. The agreement was made public Thursday in documents filed by the Federal Trade Commission in San Francisco. It alleges that Uber had engaged in unfair or deceptive practices. Uber didn't admit to wrongdoing but did agreed to settle with the FTC.

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It's by now a familiar cycle: news breaks that troves of sensitive data from some key database, server or system have been compromised, and a game of high-level speculation -- engaging the most sophisticated reporters, techies, wonks, and public officials nationwide -- is underway. But, in an age in which cyber attacks are multiplying in frequency, intensity and scale, we've gotten used to asking the wrong questions, Cylance CEO Stuart McClure told CBS News. "The jump to the'Who?' really does us a disservice," McClure, speaking from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Thursday in Davos, said. In reality, chasing attribution for cyber attacks is "almost 100 percent fruitless" given how easy it is to cover and obscure one's tracks, he said. "What we need to think about is the'How?' How did these individuals get in? Why was it so easy?"

Harvard Wyss Institute researchers have been working on a soft exosuit with DARPA's financial help for years. While they were able to present a proof of concept in 2016, it's only now that they've found out just how much the suit can actually help its wearer. According to a new study published in Science Robotics, Harvard's exosuit reduces the energy a user needs to exert while walking by 23 percent. It does that by providing assistive force to the ankle at the perfect moment when you take another step. Team leader Conor Walsh said that's the highest percentage of reduction in energy use observed with an exosuit: "In a test group of seven healthy wearers, we clearly saw that the more assistance provided to the ankle joints, the more energy the wearers could save with a maximum reduction of almost 23% compared to walking with the exosuit powered-off. To our knowledge, this is the highest relative reduction in energy expenditure observed to date with a tethered exoskeleton or exosuit."