"Lois & Clark" star Dean Cain shares what he sees as the good and bad about artificial intelligence, but he has some worries about a "Terminator"-like future. Dean Cain sees the good and bad when it comes to artificial intelligence. "AI is a weird thing," he told Fox News Digital. "I look at someone like [Tesla CEO] Elon Musk who knows a lot more about it, and I think [there] would be some great uses for AI." The actor says he hasn't tried any of the programs available but is interested in their capabilities.

AGI, while powerful, could have negative consequences, warned Diveplane CEO Mike Capps and Liberty Blockchain CCO Christopher Alexander. U.S. companies that give China artificial intelligence-driven technology to violate the human rights of its citizens need to be punished by Congress with prison terms for U.S. executives, a witness told senators in a hearing Tuesday. Geoffrey Cain, senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, warned at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing that AI is helping to power China's growing "surveillance state" and said U.S. companies have contributed to this human rights problem. "China built its AI surveillance apparatus with the connivance and complacency of major American technology firms," Cain said in his prepared remarks. "The science corporation ThermoFisher, for example, was caught selling DNA collection equipment directly to Xinjiang police authorities, who used them for mass gathering of genetic data on the minority Uyghur population. "Since the late 1990s, Microsoft has established itself as the training ground for China's AI elites through its Beijing-based laboratory, Microsoft Research Asia," he added. "The laboratory has trained many of the AI leaders and developers who went on to found or join the executive leadership of rights-abusing firms, such as Sensetime, Megvii and iFlyTek." Chinese President Xi Jinping is overseeing an AI-driven surveillance state, according to a witness at a Senate hearing Tuesday who said U.S. companies that help China should be punished. Cain's group, the Foundation for American Innovation, said it was founded to ensure technology is "aligned to serve human ends: promoting individual freedom, supporting strong institutions, advancing national security, and unleashing economic prosperity.

Chris Winfield, founder of Understanding A.I., tells Fox & Friends Weekend host Will Cain about a study showing patients preferred medical answers from artificial intelligence over doctors. Patients are becoming more favorable to having artificial intelligence involved in medicine, according to one study from The Journal of American Medicine, showing that nearly 80% of participants preferred a chatbot's medical responses over a conventional doctor's. "They liked the bedside manner of the A.I. doctor, in this case it was ChatGPT, better than the actual doctors themselves, and they actually felt more comfortable with those answers," said Chris Winfield, founder of Understanding A.I. Doctor surgeon and neurologist use robotic and medical technology to diagnose and examine patient brain with intelligence software. Winfield, who appeared Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend," said the blind study kept participants in the dark about who – or what – offered advice for their questions to more accurately shirk off potential biases. He added that one of the implications is that people are unhappy with conventional doctors' bedside manner.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – One of the most contentious battles in politics isn't just the current battle for the White House, it's also the upcoming battle over who could ultimately end up in the halls of Congress and state capitols everywhere, in a process called redistricting. "The basic idea underlying that system is that we should form a constituency with people who live near us," said Charles Blahous, a senior research strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia. New district maps are created based on census population numbers every 10 years. Yet, those maps can end up getting distorted to favor one political party over another when gerrymandering comes in to play. "I think gerrymandering is of concern to most voters because it seems to violate the foundational principle of our representative system, which is that we are divided into districts geographically," Blahous said.

Gerrymandering is one of the most insidious methods out there of influencing our political process. By legally changing the way votes are collected and counted, the outcomes can be influenced -- even fixed in advance for years. The solution may be an AI system that draws voting districts with an impartial hand. Ordinarily, districts that correspond to electoral votes within a state are drawn essentially by hand, and partisan operatives on both sides of the aisle have used the process to create distorted shapes that exclude hostile voters and lock in their own. It's so effective that it's become commonplace -- so much so there's even a font made out of gerrymandered districts shaped like letters.

Gartner says artificial intelligence is expected to be common in the office by 2025, already seeing'huge pent-up demand' Artificial intelligence (AI) will be widely adopted in office environments in a variety of ways over the next few years as businesses invest in digital workplace initiatives, Gartner analysts have said. The trend is expected to gather steam as voice-activated personal assistants that have proved a hit at home begin to make inroads in the office. By 2025, the technology will "certainly be mainstream," said Matthew Cain, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner – even though privacy and security concerns have limited deployments so far. Cain was among the analysts who spoke at Gartner's Digital Workplace Summit in London. Gartner has separately predicted that consumer and business spending on smart speakers will pass $3.5 billion (€3.15 billion) in 2021, with 25% of digital workers using an AI assistant on a daily basis within the next two years.

Smart assistants could become common AI presences in the office. Artificial intelligence (AI) will become "mainstream" enterprise technology by 2025, according to Gartner analysts at its Digital Workplace Summit in London. As reported by ComputerWorld, AI programs will become commonplace in our offices, as investments in digital transformation continue, and applications of the technology continue to permeate business operations. In particular, digital voice assistants which have been well-received among consumers could serve as'receptionists' in the office environment, booking meeting rooms, or on-boarding new recruits, for example. In fact, Gartner expects 25 percent of digital workers to be using AI voice assistants within the next two years, and reportedly urged businesses to begin developing skills in their deployment, management, and security.

LONDON – Artificial intelligence (AI) will be widely adopted in office environments in a variety of ways over the next few years as businesses invest in digital workplace initiatives, Gartner analysts said today. The trend is expected to gather steam as voice-activated personal assistants that have proved a hit at home begin to make inroads in the office. By 2025, the technology will "certainly be mainstream," said Matthew Cain, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner – even though privacy and security concerns have limited deployments so far. Cain was among the analysts who spoke at Gartner's Digital Workplace Summit here. Gartner has separately predicted that consumer and business spending on smart speakers will pass $3.5 billion in 2021, with 25% of digital workers using an AI assistant on a daily basis within the next two years.

Application leaders and business executives haven't traditionally spent much time contemplating how work will change in years to come. That's largely because the IT organization has focused on operational excellence and because over the past three decades, the pace of change in the workforce has been relatively slow and predictable. The IT charter is expanding to include a larger focus on individuals, teams and overall business performance, and accelerating technology cycles are rapidly increasing the pace of change in work patterns. "Digital business models and platforms are fundamentally restructuring how business is conducted. Cloud services are increasing the speed of technology change at a rate unthinkable in the days of on-premises deployment," says Matt Cain, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.

In a basic economic system, each participant receives a (financial) reward according to his own contribution to the system. In this work, we study an alternative approach — Incentive Networks — in which a participant's reward depends not only on his own contribution; but also in part on the contributions made by his social contacts or friends. We show that the key parameter effecting the efficiency of such an Incentive Network-based economic system depends on the participant's degree of directed altruism. Directed altruism is the extent to which someone is willing to work if his work results in a payment to his friend, rather than to himself. Specifically, we characterize the condition under which an Incentive Network-based economy is more efficient than the basic "pay-for-your-contribution" economy. We quantify by how much incentive networks can reduce the total reward that needs to be paid to the participants in order to achieve a certain overall contribution. Finally, we study the impact of the network topology and various exogenous parameters on the efficiency of incentive networks. Our results suggest that in many practical settings, Incentive Network-based reward systems or compensation structures could be more efficient than the ubiquitous 'pay-for-your-contribution' schemes.