Artificial intelligence is increasingly prominent in our everyday lives from smart home devices to navigation and music streaming. What does this mean for individuals and businesses in your area of the country? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is teaming up with thought leaders and academics and, most importantly, members of the public, to find the best way to responsibly move AI forward. The U.S. Chamber believes this emerging technology can be a tremendous force for good and we must leverage AI to compete globally. To do so we need reasonable and responsible rules to harness its potential while minimizing risks.

We've just added several publicly available healthcare datasets to the collection of public datasets on Google BigQuery (the cloud-native data warehouse for analytics at petabyte scale), including RxNorm (maintained by NLM) and the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Level II. While it's not technically a healthcare dataset, we also added the 2000 and 2010 Decennial census counts broken down by age, gender and zip code tabular areas, which we hope will assist healthcare utilization and population health analysis (as we'll discuss below). Anyone with a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account can explore these datasets. RxNorm was created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) to provide a normalized naming system for clinical drugs and provide structured information such as brand names, ingredients and so on for each drug. Drug information is made available as a single "concepts" table while the relationships that map entities to each other (ingredient to brand name, for example) is made available as a separate "relationships" table.

Uber is at it again. The company, famous (or notorious, depending on your point of view) for flouting regulations as it built its disruptive, multi-billion-dollar business, rolled out a fleet of autonomous cars in San Francisco this week despite an explicit warning from the Department of Motor Vehicles that testing on public roads was illegal without a permit. Never mind that 20 of Uber's competitors in the race to develop autonomous cars have followed the California DMV's rules and gotten testing permits. Never mind that new federal guidelines for the safe operation of autonomous vehicles anticipate that car companies will get a state's permission before testing driverless technology on its public roads. Never mind that Uber's executives were told by DMV officials before the launch that the company would need a permit to operate its autonomous vehicles.

No one knows for certain what will happen if an errant drone crashes into a passenger jet. Who wants to find out for sure? Better to keep drones and planes well out of each other's way. One important step is for Congress to pass the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that's working its way through the Senate this month. Among many other things, the bill adopts some of the strictest regulations for commercial and hobby drones yet. It's way past time to start getting a handle on these flying robots.