"The Agency" star Katherine Waterston admitted she finds AI generally "terrifying" for Hollywood and beyond. Lisa Kudrow fears an uncertain future as artificial intelligence becomes more and more prevalent in Hollywood. During a recent appearance on the "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard" podcast, she discussed the recent film, "Here," directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. The movie used AI to allow the stars to play the same characters all the way from their teen years to old age. "They shot it, and they could actually shoot the scene and then look at the playback of them as younger, and it's ready for them to see," Kudrow said.

The philosophical world is busy making plans to mark the 300th birthday next year of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Non-philosophers might be forgiven for wondering why they should care about the opinions of a man who lived before the onset of cars, computers, and climate change. But arguably the most important thinker of European modernity had insights that can still illuminate some of our most vexing problems. Take the wide-spread concerns about AI that have emerged full force with the development of generative language models like ChatGPT-4. Kant's understanding of the nature of human intelligence can help us work out what, if anything, we have to fear in the face of machines that write, reason, and create exponentially faster than we can. Specifically, Kant's philosophy tells us that our anxiety about machines making decisions for themselves rather than following the instructions of their creators is misplaced.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Since the launch of ChatGPT 3 in the fall of 2022, panic over artificial intelligence (AI) has been in the air and it's easy to succumb to the negative hype. Renowned inventors, business leaders and AI experts are signing letters and penning op-eds about how this spells doomsday for humanity. Governments are joining the fray by calling for new regulations.

One of the more harrowing reads for writers concerned about artificial intelligence encroaching on their livelihoods is a study commissioned by OpenAI itself. Published in March, it places writers in the "fully exposed" category. This means that, according to OpenAI, a large language model (LLM) could reduce the time it takes for them to carry out their work by at least 50 percent. AI can already score in the 93rd percentile on SAT reading exams; it can already produce bad stories and poems. Directors are discussing the possibilities of AI-generated scripts.

In a recent exchange on The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert pressed iconic director Steven Spielberg to weigh in on the ever-evolving world of AI-generated art. Spielberg expressed his love for it, saying that he believes any time a person uses digital tools to express themselves and convey a message is fantastic. It was a rational and thoughtful response that mimicked those of Samuel Morse regarding photography in the 1840s. Colbert, however, wasn't satisfied with a measured answer. He pushed Spielberg further, suggesting that AI art was beginning to look more like a replacement for human creativity.

In a recent exchange on The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert pressed iconic director Steven Spielberg to weigh in on the ever-evolving world of AI-generated art. Spielberg expressed his love for it, saying that he believes any time a person uses digital tools to express themselves and convey a message is fantastic. It was a rational and thoughtful response that mimicked those of Samuel Morse regarding photography in the 1840s. Colbert, however, wasn't satisfied with a measured answer. He pushed Spielberg further, suggesting that AI art was beginning to look more like a replacement for human creativity.

Fears have been raised about the future of artificial intelligence after a robot was found to have learned'toxic stereotypes' from the internet. The machine showed significant gender and racial biases, including gravitating toward men over women and white people over people of colour during tests by scientists. It also jumped to conclusions about peoples' jobs after a glance at their face. 'The robot has learned toxic stereotypes through these flawed neural network models,' said author Andrew Hundt, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech who co-conducted the work as a PhD student working in Johns Hopkins' Computational Interaction and Robotics Laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland. 'We're at risk of creating a generation of racist and sexist robots but people and organisations have decided it's OK to create these products without addressing the issues.'

The decisions that we make now and in the near future will set the tone for the rest of the decade including how artificial intelligence (AI) may develop and how we will use it. It will require enlightened leadership to maximise the benefit for human society. This article is focused on providing a moment of reflection in terms of where we are and where we are going from a policy and philosophical perspective and to serve as a prelude to a more technical article on the next generation of AI that will follow. Positive use case potential for AI includes the fight against Covid -19. For example The Lancet published an article authored by Zhou et al. entitled "Artificial Intelligence in COVID-19 drug repurposing" and state that " In this Review, we introduce guidelines on how to use AI for accelerating drug repurposing or repositioning, for which AI approaches are not just formidable but are also necessary. We discuss how to use AI models in precision medicine, and as an example, how AI models can accelerate COVID-19 drug repurposing."

The decisions that we make now and in the near future will set the tone for the rest of the decade including how artificial intelligence (AI) may develop and how we will use it. It will require enlightened leadership to maximise the benefit for human society. This article is focused on providing a moment of reflection in terms of where we are and where we are going from a policy and philosophical perspective and to serve as a prelude to a more technical article on the next generation of AI that will follow. Positive use case potential for AI includes the fight against Covid -19. For example The Lancet published an article authored by Zhou et al. entitled "Artificial Intelligence in COVID-19 drug repurposing" and state that " In this Review, we introduce guidelines on how to use AI for accelerating drug repurposing or repositioning, for which AI approaches are not just formidable but are also necessary. We discuss how to use AI models in precision medicine, and as an example, how AI models can accelerate COVID-19 drug repurposing."

Artificial intelligence has the power to change the world -- and it, as it advances from useful to essential, then from essential to mandatory and finally from mandatory to directive. "Machines will tell us what to do," warns entrepreneur and author Bill Bishop. Gillian K. Hadfield, the director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, agrees AI will present new problems but is confident society will be bold and come up with new ideas for regulating AI. To paraphrase Tolstoy, all nice, helpful robots are alike, but all dangerous robots are dangerous in their own unique way. In this debate, I will show that we need to fear the dangerous robots (AIs), not by acting like paranoid Luddites, but to ensure we fear AIs enough to pay attention to potential threats, and to take proactive steps to mitigate them.