Jobs traditionally done by women are more vulnerable to the impact of artificial intelligence than those done by men, especially in high-income countries, a report by the United Nations' International Labour Organization showed on Tuesday. It found 9.6% of traditionally female jobs were set to be transformed compared with 3.5% of those carried out by men as AI increasingly takes on administrative tasks and transforms clerical jobs, such as secretarial work. Human involvement will still be required for many tasks -- and roles are more likely to be radically changed rather than eliminated, the report said. Jobs in the media, software and finance-related roles are also at the forefront of change as generative AI expands its learning abilities. "We stress that such exposure does not imply the immediate automation of an entire occupation, but rather the potential for a large share of its current tasks to be performed using this technology," the report said. It called on governments and employers' and workers' organizations to think about how AI can be used to enhance productivity and job quality.

Artificial intelligence is driving a technological revolution. But feeding it requires more electricity to run its powerful computers and even more giant data centres. So, how can such new demand be met – and what are the implications?

A new US State Department-funded study calls for a temporary ban on the creation of advanced AI passed a certain threshold of computational power. The tech, its authors claim, poses an'extinction-level threat to the human species.' The study, commissioned as part of a 250,000 federal contract, also calls for'defining emergency powers' for the American government's executive branch'to respond to dangerous and fast-moving AI-related incidents' -- like'swarm robotics.' Treating high-end computer chips as international contraband, and even monitoring how hardware is used, are just some of the drastic measures the new study calls for. The report joins of a chorus of industry, governmental and academic voices calling for aggressive regulatory attention on the hotly pursued and game-changing, but socially disruptive, potential of artificial intelligence.

Taipei, Taiwan – Artificial intelligence poses a "risk of extinction" that calls for global action, leading computer scientists and technologists have warned. "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," a group of AI experts and other high-profile figures said in a brief statement released by the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco-based research and advocacy group, on Tuesday. The signatories include technology experts such as Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "godfather of AI", and Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister, as well as other notable figures including the neuroscientist Sam Harris and the musician Grimes. The warning follows an open letter signed by Elon Musk and other high-profile figures in March that called for a six-month pause on the development of AI more advanced than OpenAI's GPT-4. "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable," the letter said.

Add Eric Schmidt to the list of tech luminaries concerned about the dangers of AI. The former Google chief tells guests at The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit that AI represents an "existential risk" that could get many people "harmed or killed." He doesn't feel that threat is serious at the moment, but he sees a near future where AI could help find software security flaws or new biology types. It's important to ensure these systems aren't "misused by evil people," the veteran executive says. Schmidt doesn't have a firm solution for regulating AI, but he believes there won't be an AI-specific regulator in the US.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said AI is the "biggest thing in this decade" Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Bill Gates said in a podcast Google's search engine profits could fall as Microsoft moves into AI. Gates said AI is the "biggest thing in this decade" and could reshuffle the tech space. Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered Bing in a challenge to Google's search engine…

Business sectors ranging from agriculture and manufacturing to automotive and financial services are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence as a means to automate large swaths of their organizations--and, along the way, save enormous sums through improved efficiencies. But, says'Megathreats' Author and NYU Stern School of Business professor Nouriel Roubini, the rise of AI will also have a massively negative impact on workers throughout the economy. AI has helped revolutionize everything from the smartphones in our pockets to our grocery stores, which use the technology to better predict which items customers want to see on shelves. However, Roubini, whose prediction of the 2008 financial crisis earned him the moniker "Dr. Doom," says AI poses a threat to millions of workers.

Between storing data in large-scale data centers and then using that data to train a machine learning or deep learning model, AI energy consumption is high.

Could the same automated technologies cybersecurity professionals are increasingly using to protect their enterprises also fuel attacks against them? The research bears that out, according to a report my colleague Marc Bruce and I recently completed for the Swedish Defence Research Agency. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to analyze data and predict outcomes has been a boon for many industries, including the cybersecurity and defense industries. More and more, antivirus and cyberthreat intelligence systems are using machine learning to become more efficient. For example, both the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the European Defence Agency (EDA) are seeking to integrate AI technologies into their cyberdefense response capabilities.

We often think about artificial intelligence (AI) in terms of the benefits it can provide by helping us complete tasks more efficiently. It's important to remember, though, that this technology can be used just as easily for malicious ends. Could it pose more of a cybersecurity threat than we think? Because AI can learn on its own and use that knowledge to complete tasks autonomously, it can help us complete work more efficiently, more cost-effectively, more accurately and with less hands-on effort. Those benefits apply to virtually every sector.