AI could soon help settle intellectual property issues in the UAE. The MoU was signed in Geneva on the sidelines of meetings being held at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Shehhi, undersecretary for economic affairs at the UAE's Ministry of Economy (and who signed the MoU), said the usage of AI in IP could play a large role in shaping he future economy – in addition to cementing the UAE's status as a future-focussed society that utilises the latest technologies to make life better and more efficient. News of the use of AI in IP comes as Dubai has launched the region's first virtual licences. The virtual company licences, announced by Deputy Ruler Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, allow for investors worldwide to do business in Dubai digitally – without requiring residence in the emirate.

The Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures could prevent law enforcement from applying increasingly sophisticated surveillance and predictive policing technology, including "superhuman" methods employing artificial intelligence, according to a professor at the University of California-Davis School of Law. In an essay published in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Elizabeth E. Joh argues that the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v United States established a precedent for using the Fourth Amendment to limit the use of emerging technology, ranging from drones that help patrol borders to predictive-analytic software that can determine when and where the next crime will occur. In that landmark case, decided this summer, the Court ruled law enforcement cannot access citizens' cellphone location records without a search warrant. Although the decision focused on whether information held by "third parties" such as cellphone providers was subject to privacy protections guaranteed under the Constitution, Joh said it also touched on the changing "nature of policing" specifically the technologically enhanced means law enforcement can now exploit to gather information in the cyber era. In the Carpenter case, justices were asked to rule on whether FBI agents sidestepped their constitutional obligations to show "probable cause" for obtaining a search warrant to retrieve the locational data of a suspected serial robber's cellphone to prove he was near the scene of stores in the Detroit area where thefts had occurred.

A company operating a website on how to prepare for qualification examinations is using artificial intelligence (AI) to successfully predict questions on such tests. Tokyo-based Sight Visit Inc. correctly picked 57 out of 95 questions -- about 60% -- that went on the multiple choice section of the preliminary test for the state bar examination in May. One of the questions that the company correctly predicted is a true-or-false one that stated: "When deciding to involve an expert commissioner when preparing to hold oral proceedings to hear explanations based on their expert knowledge, the opinions of the concerned parties must be heard." Sight Visit deems that it has been successful when its predictions for both questions and their answer options are totally, or almost, correct. The preliminary test for the state bar exam comprises multiple choice and description-type sections.

"Less than a minute after finishing the call with Johannes, the fake Johannes rang again. His voice was identical but as soon as I asked who was calling, the line went dead." The criminals have yet to be identified, the company's insurer, Euler Hermes, said. Philipp Amann, head of strategy at the cybercrime centre at Europol, said that similar frauds may have already been made but gone undetected. Experts have raised concerns in the past year about the rapid acceleration of the technology but it had been believed that only video footage could be mimicked with such accuracy.

Sony Interactive Entertainment, the creator of all things PlayStation, has filed an intriguing patent for a "VOICE HELP SYSTEM USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" and it is presumably one of the features that'll arrive with PlayStation 5. Sony's voice AI help assistant can pull gameplay videos stored on a backend server when a query is made by the player. The following patent was filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment on September 26 at the the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Information related to a plurality of game plays of players for a gaming application is received over a network at a back-end server. A query is received from a first player playing the gaming application, wherein the query is related to first gameplay of the first player. A current game context of the first gameplay of a first player is determined from the information.

Raw video: Cuyahoga County Jail security footage shows an inmate attempting to catch marijuana and a cell phone that was dropped from a drone. Earlier this year, we learned that Martin Shkreli, a conman and convicted felon, was secretly running an investment company from prison using a contraband cell phone. Shkreli, also known as the "Pharma Bro," achieved infamy in 2015 for jacking up the price of a medicine needed by a small group of very sick patients to enrich himself and his investors. He was convicted of fraud in 2017 and sent to prison. Prison is supposed to keep criminals out of our communities, but as Shkreli's example shows, contraband cell phones allow inmates to continue their crime sprees from behind bars.

These days, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly commonplace. Companies and governments use facial recognition technology to verify our identities; virtually every smartphone on the market has mapping and translation apps; and machine learning is an indispensable tool in diverse fields including conservation, healthcare, and agriculture. As the power, influence, and reach of AI spreads, many international observers are scrutinizing the dual nature of AI technology. They're considering not only AI's positive transformative effects on human society and development -- think of medical AI applications that help diagnose cancer early -- but also its downsides, particularly in terms of the global security threats to which it can expose us all. AI as a Weapon As AI gets better and more sophisticated, it also enables cybercriminals to use deep learning and AI to breach security systems (just as cybersecurity experts use the same technology tools to detect suspicious online behavior).

There is an open debate about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Sceptics of AI question how much AI is a "threat" to our privacy, way of life and how much it can ultimately deliver. "It's healthy to approach with a certain sense of humility. People have been talking about the rise of artificial intelligence since Stanford Professor John McCarthy coined the term in 1956," Sam Blatteis, CEO of The MENA Catalysts, a public policy consulting firm for government innovation arms and high tech multinationals, told TechRadar Middle East. However, Blatteis said that, "there are those who believe that the disruptive potential of AI will have nothing less than the social impact of the industrial revolution, Henry Ford's assembly line, the invention of flight, and the Internet."

"Let's not use society as a test-bed for technologies that we're not sure yet how they're going to change society," warned Carly Kind, director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an artificial intelligence (AI) research body based in the U.K. "Let's try to think through some of these issues -- move slower and fix things, rather than move fast and break things." Kind was speaking as part of a recent panel discussion at Digital Frontrunners, a conference in Copenhagen that focused on the impact of AI and other next-gen technologies on society. The "move fast and break things" ethos embodied by Facebook's rise to internet dominance is one that has been borrowed by many a Silicon Valley startup: develop and swiftly ship an MVP (minimal viable product), iterate, learn from mistakes, and repeat. These principles are relatively harmless when it comes to developing a photo-sharing app, social network, or mobile messaging service, but in the 15 years since Facebook came to the fore, the technology industry has evolved into a very different beast. Large-scale data breaches are a near-daily occurrence, data-harvesting on an industrial level is threatening democracies, and artificial intelligence (AI) is now permeating just about every facet of society -- often to humans' chagrin.

From self-driving vehicles and autonomous drones, to virtual doctors and automated personal assistants, AI is expected to fundamentally disrupt the way that people live, work and interact with each other. AI is increasingly the key to significant innovations across almost all segments of society, manifesting itself in vastly different applications. There are vast opportunities for businesses operating in industries where AI has become more prevalent. However, with these opportunities come significant challenges. Ashurst's series of articles on AI will consider these issues from an IP perspective.