Fox News contributor Joe Concha joins'Fox & Friends First' to discuss Elon Musk's warning that artificial intelligence could threaten elections and his concerns on the declining birth rate. The United States government uses artificial intelligence in the military, intelligence, and law enforcement to help mitigate potential threats. However, the use of machine learning technology largely remains unregulated by the government, although year-on-year spending on AI government contracts continues to increase. Read below to find out how AI can potentially transform government agencies and impact US democracy. WHAT ARE THE DANGERS OF AI? FIND OUT WHY PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The Federal Bureau of Investigations, the top law enforcement agency in the United States, has used artificial intelligence to assist in crime prevention and intelligence gathering.

Governments can and do use artificial intelligence to direct their citizens and their policy. But are we prepared for how far it could go? Governments have access to large amounts of data which they can -- and often do -- use to analyse and predict their citizens' behaviours using artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. However while AI can help policy-makers by delivering highly accurate predictions, identifying trends and patterns, predicting complex associations and improving profitability, it may also introduce risks to citizen's privacy and security and threaten free decision-making in society. Researchers from three Universities in Spain explored these risks in a study which surveyed government officials about their institution's use of artificial intelligence.

The top public-sector use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) are quality control, workforce management and cybersecurity, according to a recent survey. Quality control issues such as detecting defects and finding errors in software code topped the list of AI uses with nearly half -- 47% of survey respondents -- citing it, according to "Government executives on AI: Surveying how the public sector is approaching an AI-enabled future," a report released by Deloitte Consulting last month. Workforce management tasks, such as recruiting and training, and cybersecurity tied for second place with 38% of respondents citing them. Rounding out the top three was another tie: Thirty-five percent said IT automation and predictive analytics were their main uses for AI. Although public-sector organizations are largely enthusiastic about using AI, agencies are feeling the growing pains that come with the maturation of any technology.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening up a new frontier by combining human creativity with technology to drive progress in our society and bring governments closer to their constituents. According to the 2018 United Nations (UN) e-Government Survey all 193 Member States have e-government systems in place, at different maturity levels, to deliver digital services and experiences to citizens. The three most commonly used e-government services are paying utilities (140 countries), submitting income taxes (139 countries), and registering a new business (126 countries). Denmark is heading the top 10 e-government development ranking, followed by Australia, the Republic of Korea, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Singapore, New Zealand, France and Japan. The next phase of e-government will use AI to go beyond digitized and automated services and deliver better experiences to citizens.

One of the big misconceptions is that AI is a future technology, akin to humanoid robots that appear in television shows and movies. But AI is not a speculative technology--it already has many real-world applications, and ordinary people rely on it in one form or another every day. In fact, iPhones, Amazon's Alexa, Twitter and Facebook feeds, Google's search engine, and Netflix movie queues--to name just a few examples--all rely on AI. That said, there is a vast gap between the complexity of AI processing needed for the complex geospatial functions performed by self-driving cars versus, say, the basic AI algorithms used for more routine tasks like filtering spam emails. Technologist Melvin Kranzberg famously stated, "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral."