The bill, which was passed unanimously by a House panel in July, would allow automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy up to 25,000 vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards in the first year, a cap that would rise to 100,000 vehicles annually over three years. Automakers and technology companies including General Motors Co and Alphabet Inc's' self-driving unit Waymo have been pushing for new federal rules making it easier to deploy self-driving technology. Meanwhile, some consumer groups have sought additional safeguards. The bill will be voted under fast-track rules that do not allow for amendments. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has been working on similar legislation but has not introduced a bill.

Lawmakers in Hawaii have voted to explore the idea of a universal basic income to guarantee wages to servers, cooks and cleaners whose jobs may be replaced by machines. The decision was made after research found the majority of tourism jobs will be replaced by robots. As technological innovations displace people's jobs, retraining for many affected workers may be impossible. An official in San Francisco also wants to implement a statewide'tax' on robots that automate jobs and put people out of work. The idea of compensating workers has gained support in progressive areas of the country, including Hawaii and San Francisco. A report last year from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development concluded that 9 per cent of jobs in the United States - or about 13 million - could be automated.

Steve Silverman helped build cameras for two NASA rovers that went to Mars. In the less exotic landscape of a Google parking lot, he looks up fondly at his latest creation, bolted onto the roof of a Hyundai hatchback. The gawky assemblage almost doubles the car's height: four white legs holding up a vertical black stalk sporting eight cameras. "We thought about covering it up, but we're kind of nerds," Silverman says. Silverman and his team build the hardware that captures imagery for Google Street View, the project that since 2007 has put panoramas of more than 10 million miles of roads, buildings, and the occasional act of public urination online for all to see. The new camera design, the first major upgrade in eight years, started regularly patrolling the streets last month.

Arizona State University assistant professor of computer science and robotics Heni Ben Amor, talks about robots and how they are affecting employment in the United States. Arizona State University assistant professor of computer science and robotics Heni Ben Amor, left, talks about Baxter the robot with Ph.D. student Simon Stepputtis, middle, and masters student Trevor Richardson at the Interactive Robotics Lab at ASU, Wednesday, August 30, 2017. You might not be in your dream job. Most likely, you don't make as much money as you would like. But let's face it: Today's employment market has improved substantially over the past several years. The nation already is nearly back to what economists call full employment, with a U.S. jobless rate easing to near 4 percent.

Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX's CEO wasn't making doomsday predictions because North Korea is testing nuclear weapons. What's got Musk much more worried about world war is artificial intelligence. North Korea "should be low on our list of concerns for civilizational existential risk," Musk said in one of a series of posts on Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) early Monday. "Competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3 imo," Musk said in another tweet, using the Internet short-hand for "in my opinion." The dire prediction was in response to a recent comment from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

I'm going to start this off by saying that typically, I stay away from all things politics. Debatable, but at the end of the day, I never feel equipped to have those difficult discussions. For one, it's a massive conversation to have – there are so many moving pieces that many of us simply can't comprehend, but on top of that, it's just super difficult to find and interpret facts on subjects such as Executive Orders. Yes, you can search them and read them in all of their wordy glory, or read an opinionated article that typically has bias, but what if you just have questions about a particular order or the ramifications a new Executive Order means for you and your family? That's a lot more difficult to figure out and it usually ends with frustration and defeat.

A heated debate is currently underway within the scientific community about AI, with some claiming that it can be used to benefit humanity, while others claim it could lead to the end of modern civilisation. South African businessman and SpaceX leader Elon Musk has been one of the more outspoken critics of AI, describing it as the "biggest risk we face as a civilisation." Others, however, have said that it will be a positive, with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg saying that "If you're arguing against AI, then you're arguing against safer cars that aren't going to have accidents. I just don't see how, in good conscience, some people can do that." However, as President Putin wades into the debate, experts will surely be worried following his ominous warning.

In recent years we have seen a surge in the way companies have leveraged technology to drive new revenue streams and create a unique competitive advantage in the marketplace. The companies that have been the most successful are the ones using Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is already being used by hundreds of companies all over the world. We have seen retailers being able to predict what their customers will order based on their previous order history, car manufactures using vehicle data to provide a better driving experience and even locally in Australia we have seen Domino's using AI to help grow their sales and store numbers. But what does this have to do with cybersecurity…….? Whether you are an organisation not yet using AI, or you are already experimenting with it, is important to protect the intellectual property that provides your organisation with the competitive edge.

Elon Musk has said again that artificial intelligence could be humanity's greatest existential threat, this time by starting a third world war. The prospect clearly weighs heavily on Musk's mind, since the SpaceX, Tesla and Boring Company chief tweeted at 2.33am Los Angeles time about how AI could led to the end of the world – without the need for the singularity. His fears were prompted by a statement from Vladimir Putin that "artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind … It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world." Hashing out his thoughts in public, Musk clarified that he was not just concerned about the prospect of a world leader starting the war, but also of an overcautious AI deciding "that a [pre-emptive] strike is [the] most probable path to victory".

The Tesla founder spoke about his fears after Vladimir Putin claimed that the nation which controls artificial intelligence will come to rule the world. On Twitter, Musk wrote: "China, Russia -- soon all countries with strong computer science. The development of killer computers would give any nation a clear edge over its competitors. Artificial intelligence could be used to command fleets of drones or battalions of killer robots, while responding to threats at speeds much faster than any human could manage, The Sun reports. The race to develop artificial intelligence could spark World War Three, according to Elon Musk. But there's a risk that a super-smart AI could go rogue and launch genocidal attacks without being constrained by human conscience and empathy. Musk said that it may actually be the AI itself that launches the next World War. He added: "[WW3] May be initiated not by the country leaders, but one of the AI's, if it decides that a pre-emptive strike is most probable path to victory." Nick Bostrom, head of the University of Oxford's Future Of Humanity Institute, recently claimed that we may have just 50 years to save ourselves from artificial intelligence. Competition to build a machine that's as clever as humans will be fierce in the coming decades, with considerable rewards on offer for the nation which manages to pull off the historical feat of achieving "machine intelligence". But the scrabble to create this silicon-powered mind could lead to mistakes with disastrous consequences, according to The Sun. "There is a control problem," Bostrom said. Killer robots, or lethal autonomous weapons, should be banned because of the potential scale of destruction and ability to be hacked, industry leaders say. "If you have a very tight tech race to get there first, whoever invests in safety could lose the race.