FOX News contributor Dr. Rebecca Grant tells'FOX News Live' that she believes tensions in the Middle East can be contained to just Israel. The State Department on Sunday updated its travel advisory for Iraq to include the ordered departure of all non-emergency U.S. government personnel and eligible family members. Americans are warned "do not travel to Iraq due to terrorism, kidnapping, armed conflict, civil unrest, and Mission Iraq's limited capacity to provide support to U.S. citizens." On Oct. 20, the State Department already ordered the departure of eligible family members and non-emergency U.S. government personnel from U.S. Embassy Baghdad and U.S. Consulate General Erbil "due to increased security threats against U.S. government personnel and interests." In recent days, Iran-backed militias attacked United States military bases in Iraq.

In honor of Alan Turing, DreamPort is announcing a prize challenge event for interested parties to develop a'Turing Test'. In 1950, Alan Turing conceived of the idea to identify in a conversation between two entities, which entity was a robot, and which was human. Our DreamPort Turing Test will be a challenge event where participants develop a stand-alone automated process to interact with a Microsoft Windows machine just as a human user may do with the goal being to fool a human judge who is monitoring target computers via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or Virtual Network Computing (VNC) into thinking a normal user is interacting with that machine and not an automated program or process. This challenge requires participants to develop a complete stand-alone solution on their own for intermediate and final demonstration. To be clear, we want a developer or team to produce a complete program that can interact with a Windows client mimicking a normal user.

Many people see the potential benefits of artificial intelligence technologies used for government services – but many also aren't convinced governments will use AI tech responsibly, according to a new survey from Accenture. The online survey of more than 6,000 citizens from US, Australia, the UK, Singapore, France and Germany found that more than half (54%) of citizens said they are willing to use AI services delivered by government, with even more expressing willingness when presented with the potential benefits derived from artificial intelligence. For instance, three-quarters (74%) of respondents said they would be willing to use artificial intelligence if it would increase pension or retirement income (such as by improving their personal investment strategy and/or pension scheme), and two-thirds (66%) said they would use a chatbot if it would guarantee faster processing of a tax refund or social service benefits. However, that doesn't mean citizens aren't worried about the government using artificial intelligence responsibly – two-thirds (66%) of respondents indicated a lack of confidence in government's ethical and responsible use of AI. Specifically, only one-third (34%) said they're "confident/very confident" that government would be ethical and responsible in its use of AI; fewer than one in three (29%) said they are "not at all confident" in government using AI ethically and responsibly, and slightly more than one-third (37%) said they are neutral on the point. The survey also determined that regardless of where they lived, citizens have concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in government, including in areas of job security and personal data security.