In October, the White House released a 70-plus-page document called the "Blueprint for an A.I. Bill of Rights." The document's ambition was sweeping. It called for the right for individuals to "opt out" from automated systems in favor of human ones, the right to a clear explanation as to why a given A.I. system made the decision it did, and the right for the public to give input on how A.I. systems are developed and deployed. But if it did become law, it would transform how A.I. systems would need to be devised. And, for that reason, it raises an important set of questions: What does a public vision for A.I. actually look like?

The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Since 2016, Tesla has been marketing an expensive option called Full Self-Driving. A reasonable person might infer from the name that the software package enables a car to drive itself, fully. No car available for consumers to buy is capable of full self-driving. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has rules on its books that ban the advertisement of cars as "self-driving" when they are not. But it has never enforced those rules.

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Modeling various aspects of language--syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse, among others--by the use of constrained formal-computational systems, just adequate for such modeling, has proved to be an effective research strategy, leading to deep understanding of these aspects, with implications for both machine processing and human processing. This approach enables one to distinguish between the universal and stipulative constraints.

This week's episode--Oxygen--is the first to show Bill in serious danger, courtesy of a malfunctioning spacesuit that nearly kills her and also, ultimately, saves her from dying: a dichotomy that seems to point to the uneasy relationship some people have with capitalism--a theme that is explored here. And again racism is challenged. I'm reminded of classic Star Trek episodes that score an A-plus for science fiction, while still finding time to scrutinize modern-day prejudices. Not surprising, then, that the Doctor's first line is "space, the final frontier." Although, Oxygen--which too easily slips into on-the-nose dialogue in an otherwise solid Doctor Who episode that expertly knits chunks of knotty science into the plot--probably deserves a B-minus at best.

We propose a logic of asynchronous announcements, where truthful announcements are publicly sent but individually received by agents. Additional to epistemic modalities, the logic therefore contains two types of dynamic modalities, for sending messages and for receiving messages. The semantics defines truth relative to the current state of reception of messages for all agents. This means that knowledge need not be truthful, because some messages may not have been received by the knowing agent. Messages that are announcements may also result in partial synchronization, namely when an agent learns from receiving an announcement that other announcements must already have been received by other agents. We give detailed examples of the semantics, and prove several semantic results, including that: after an announcement an agent knows that a proposition is true, if and only if on condition of the truth of that announcement, the agent knows that after that announcement and after any number of other agents also receiving it, the proposition is true. We show that on multi-agent epistemic models, each formula in asynchronous announcement logic is equivalent to a formula in epistemic logic.

Doctor Who, like the best horror films, has always been at its strongest when it performs this one weird trick. The long-running BBC sci-fi show thrives on taking a single, simple, harmless, ordinary thing you see in everyday life (stone statues, showroom dummies), then tweaking it into a creature so terrifying (the Weeping Angels, the Autons) you will never in your life see that object the same way again. SEE ALSO: 'Doctor Who' fans will be thrilled and delighted by the latest Oxford Dictionary addition This Saturday, in the new Season 10 episode called "Smile," Doctor Who is about to perform that same trick with that most simple, harmless, ordinary facet of 21st century life: emoji. If you watch it -- and you should, because it's among the best episodes of new Who -- the smiley face at the end of your texts will take on sinister new meaning. SEE ALSO: About time: 'Doctor Who' to feature first openly gay TARDIS resident If you're an old-school Whovian like me, you probably rolled your eyes at that point in the Season 10 trailer when new companion Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie) encounters a robot with a flatscreen face composed of a smiley and a thumbs-up.

A young lesbian who works in the cafeteria serving "chips" (fries to Americans), Bill crashes the Doctor's lectures, and he notices her curious mind. So he plucks her out of the crowd and becomes her private tutor, leading to some lovely, giddy moments--like the two of them sitting and wearing paper crowns, or Bill's attempts to teach the Doctor about science fiction. Meanwhile, the plot is somewhat forgettable: it revolves around Bill's crush on a girl named Heather (Stephanie Hyam), who discovers a puddle that gives a strange reflection.