The concept behind a self-driving Waymo taxi can be a bit confusing, but one thing is clear: You don't need to get behind the wheel. That's what one man learned Thursday morning when he was taken into custody in downtown Los Angeles after allegedly trying to drive away in a Waymo, police said. Police responded to a report of an attempted auto theft near the intersection of 5th and Hill streets at 12:26 a.m., LAPD Officer Drake Madison said. The unidentified man entered the vehicle from the front passenger's seat and then moved into the driver's seat, according to police. Video from the stringer service OC Hawk showed a bearded man sitting in the stopped self-driving vehicle, poking his head out and speaking to police.

Researchers have suggested giving algorithms power over one of the most crucial backbones of American society - the justice system. Scientists from MIT proposed the tech could be used to make pre-trial bail decisions fairer after their study found human judges are systematically biased. The team analyzed more than one million cases in New York City, finding 20 percent of judges made their conclusions based on the defendant's age, race or criminal history. The paper found that decisions of at least 32 percent of judges were inconsistent with the actual ability of defendants to post a specified bail amount and real the risk of them failing to appear for trial. A new paper found that New York judges sometimes made a mistake based on their own biases when setting bail for a new defendant.

Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on how artificial intelligence can change the patient-doctor relationship on'America's Newsroom.' Japanese police have admitted that they allowed artificial intelligence (AI) to influence their decision not to provide protective custody to a child who later died in her mother's care. "The AI figures are only for reference," Mie Prefecture Gov. Katsuyuki Ichimi said at a press conference on Tuesday, stressing the importance of the judgment of those in charge. "We are not in a position to draw a conclusion whether the method of utilizing this data used this time was 100% good," indicating he intended to refer the matter to a third-party committee consisting of outside experts to determine further use of the system, Japanese outlet Jiji reported. Police considered the case of a 4-year-old girl in the city of Tsu, running it through an AI program introduced in 2020 and trained with the data of 6,000 to 13,000 cases.

In June, the Mie Prefectural Police arrested the girl's mother, 42, for allegedly inflicting injuries resulting in the girl's death. The AI system, which was introduced in 2020, uses data collected from around 13,000 past cases handled by child consultation centers and shows the proportion of previous cases in which children were taken into temporary custody. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see this FAQ.

Doctors believe artificial intelligence is now saving lives, after a major advancement in breast cancer screenings. AI is detecting early signs of the disease, in some cases years before doctors would find the cancer on a traditional scan. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). A new documentary highlights the story of a 10-year-old girl who was admitted to a Florida children's hospital for severe pain and then promptly removed from the custody of her parents after staff accused them of "medical abuse." Netflix's "Take Care of Maya" follows the story of Maya Kowalski and her mother, Beata Kowalski, a registered nurse, as they navigate Maya's rare, chronic neurological condition called complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) – a poorly understood affliction that causes severe pain throughout a person's body due to nervous system dysfunction, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Petrochemical workers strike as demonstrations continue across Iran in defiance of the regime. The European Union sanctioned Iran on Monday for the death of a 22-year-old woman while in custody of the regime's so-called morality police and the subsequent violent crackdown on protests. Numerous Iranian law enforcement officials were added to the sanctions list, including two leaders of the morality police, Mohammad Rostami and Hajahmad Mirzaei. Iran's Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Issa Zarepour, was also sanctioned for his role in censoring the internet and social media during widespread protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was reportedly murdered by Iran's morality police.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Southwest Texas has been arrested and charged with assaulting and mistreating a juvenile in custody, the agency said Friday. The agent based in the Del Rio area along the border with Mexico was arrested Monday by Texas Rangers, CBP said in a statement. A warrant was issued "following an indictment on a charge of official oppression," the agency said.

Jessamine Chan's debut novel, The School for Good Mothers, is not a domestic manual on keeping house. Nor is it the sort of slog that might make tidying look like an appealing alternative. Yet as I read it over the course of one snowy evening, I repeatedly put it down to complete household tasks normally ignored until morning. Every last sock met its match. This book is a horror story so potent it will fill even the most diligent parent with an itchy impulse to panic-clean, to straighten up, to act like someone's watching.

The idea of responsible artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading far and wide across the U.S. Department of Defense and its surrounding ecosystem. There's been the new data strategy, the responsible AI memo and the newly approved JADC2 strategy that has a massive data component. "The DoD is very much accelerating its path," said Thomas Kenney, chief data officer and director of SOF AI for U.S. Special Operations Command, during day two of the virtual AFCEA/GMU Critical Issues in C4I Symposium. "Our chief data officer at the DoD, David Spirk, is doing herculean work to help the entire DoD move forward," he added. "That new data strategy, as we think about data sharing, is absolutely essential because it creates the conditions for success where we can open doors to data we maybe didn't have access to before or maybe data we didn't even know existed," Kenney said.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A former personal assistant to tech CEO Fahim Saleh, who was found beheaded and dismembered earlier this week in his New York City apartment, has been taken into police custody in connection with the murder. Police have taken Tyrese Devon Haspel, 21, into custody for the death of the 33-year-old executive, Fox News has confirmed. The person in custody had worked as Saleh's personal assistant, the officials told The Associated Press.