Provide a forum for information sharing and collaboration between federal, state, and local government agencies, academia, and industry participants seeking to evolve government use of cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related technologies. Advise or recommend approaches to develop technical and process frameworks and capability maturity model assessments for cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the public sector. Provide a forum for information sharing and collaboration between federal, state, and local government agencies, academia, and industry participants seeking to evolve government use of cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related technologies. Advise or recommend approaches to develop technical and process frameworks and capability maturity model assessments for cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the public sector.

Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is going to decimate middle class jobs, worsening inequality and risking significant political upheaval, Stephen Hawking has warned. In a column in The Guardian, the world-famous physicist wrote that "the automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining." He adds his voice to a growing chorus of experts concerned about the effects that technology will have on workforce in the coming years and decades. The fear is that while artificial intelligence will bring radical increases in efficiency in industry, for ordinary people this will translate into unemployment and uncertainty, as their human jobs are replaced by machines. Technology has already gutted many traditional manufacturing and working class jobs -- but now it may be poised to wreak similar havoc with the middle classes.

'We are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity': Stephen Hawking warns we are at risk of destroying Earth We are living through the most dangerous time in the history of the human race, according to Professor Stephen Hawking. The Cambridge University physics professor named overpopulation, climate change and diseases as just some of the threats facing our planet. He said we have developed technology that could destroy Earth, and we must'retrain' for a new world where robots have replaced many everyday jobs. We are living through the most dangerous time in the history of the human race, according to Professor Stephen Hawking. Writing in a comment article in The Guardian, Professor Hawking explained what worries him about the future of our planet.

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Almost exactly a year ago, I attended the International Summit of Human Gene Editing at the National Academy of Sciences. It was organized in part by Jennifer Doudna, arguably one of the inventors of Crispr-Cas9. It's a new biotech tool--cheap, easy to use, and reliable--that allows thousands of scientists around the world to modify genes in plants, model organisms, and living human cells. One of the biggest ticket items on the agenda was a debate on editing the germline, the heritable code entailed in sperm and ovum that gets passed on to future generations. One chief concern is that Crispr-Cas9 will open up new terrain for a "market-based eugenics"--genome editing will be combined with in vitro fertilization techniques. There's certainly motivation to explore this landscape: Many mothers with foreknowledge of a newborn's condition of Down's syndrome, for example, choose to abort; if they had the foreknowledge that their child would have autism, or major depression, and if they had the ability to modify genetic markers for intelligence, or psychiatric risk traits, they might be tempted to take advantage of it.

Every White House leadership change causes speculation about what pre-existing initiatives the incoming administration will embrace or eliminate. I encourage President-elect Trump and his appointees to start their term ready to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) gives our economy the competitive edge it needs. The Obama administration recently released its recommended approach for how the U.S. should promote AI research and development. It published balanced suggestions to guide public investment, encourage private-public collaboration, and account for national security, public safety, diversity, and ethics. It was a good start.

In the past few decades, computer systems have achieved a whole lot. They have managed to organize and catalog the information produced by our civilization as a whole. They have relieved us from stringent cognitive tasks and increased our productivity significantly. One could say that where the industrial revolution automated labor, the digital revolution has automated cognitive labor. This statement isn't entirely correct however, if it was we would all be without a job.

Having established that we are light years away from full artificial intelligence, and that true A.I. is an inevitable part of the present and future -- now what? What should we concern ourselves with next? Like any transformative technology, A.I. carries risks and presents challenges along several dimensions, with the most complex and urgent issue being its liability and accountability. While science fiction has focused on the existential threat of A.I. to humans, researchers at Google's parent company, Alphabet, and those from Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are teaming up to focus on the ethical challenges that A.I. will bring. People with knowledge on A.I. are no longer worried about the kind of scenarios where machines take over the world in doomsday fashion.

The'Netflix AI' set to hunt for aliens: Machine learning algorithm developed for online recommendations will scour the skies for systems that could sustain life Researchers are using machine learning to find stable planetary systems It uses techniques developed for Google's and Netflix recommendations The tool will also reveal the mass and how elliptical an exoplanet's orbit is Will be used to analyse data from NASA planet hunting mission It uses techniques developed for Google's and Netflix recommendations The tool will also reveal the mass and how elliptical an exoplanet's orbit is Machine learning software (pictured) that pull inspiration from Google and Netflix's algorithms could soon discover alien life in outer space. Did HALLUCINOGENS spark the Salem witch trials? Experts say... Iron Man suits, X ray detectors and a fake Facebook and... Hello there! Chimps can recognise friends with a single... How Donald Trump's administration could change the internet:... Did HALLUCINOGENS spark the Salem witch trials? Experts say... Iron Man suits, X ray detectors and a fake Facebook and... Hello there!

For all his talk about bringing jobs back to the United States, President-elect Donald Trump has said virtually nothing about preparing Americans for the increasingly tech-driven jobs of the future. Even as he rails against trade's impact on industries like manufacturing, he's been mostly silent about the impact of automation. During the campaign, he never tried to court the Silicon Valley vote the way Hillary Clinton and many of his primary opponents did. The Carrier Deal Is Great--But Trump Hasn't Saved Manufacturing Yet Trump's Plan for American-Made iPhones Would Be Disastrous The Carrier Deal Is Great--But Trump Hasn't Saved Manufacturing Yet The Carrier Deal Is Great--But Trump Hasn't Saved Manufacturing Yet Trump's Plan for American-Made iPhones Would Be Disastrous Trump's Plan for American-Made iPhones Would Be Disastrous Now, however, Trump has brought two business leaders to the table who are perfectly positioned to help him navigate the country's digitally driven economic future: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and General Motors CEO Mary Barra. The two tech leaders are joining Trump's so-called Strategic and Policy Forum, a coalition of business executives who will advise the new president on economic issues and job creation.