Paul Ryan is a highly accomplished person with extensive knowledge in the public and commercial sectors. He is a strong candidate for any position due to his demonstrated success and leadership. First and foremost, Ryan has a wealth of government experience. From 2015 until 2019, he was the House of Representatives' 54th Speaker, making him the chamber's youngest speaker in the previous 150 years. Ryan served in Congress for several terms and had a number of executive posts, including chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee.

Artificial intelligence has become an essential tool in our daily lives and has fundamentally altered the ways in which we communicate and work with one another. In recent years, the federal government has sought to advance AI technology development and adoption through a number of important initiatives, including the National AI Initiative Act, the AI in Government Act, and the National AI Advisory Committee, which advises the president on issues of U.S. competitiveness and enhancing AI opportunities across the... Artificial intelligence has become an essential tool in our daily lives and has fundamentally altered the ways in which we communicate and work with one another. In recent years, the federal government has sought to advance AI technology development and adoption through a number of important initiatives, including the National AI Initiative Act, the AI in Government Act, and the National AI Advisory Committee, which advises the president on issues of U.S. competitiveness and enhancing AI opportunities across the country. While these efforts underscore the government's commitment to AI research and innovation, federal leaders should pay special attention to policies and programs that bolster entrepreneurs. Startups and small businesses develop and introduce new AI-enabled solutions and accelerate the implementation of AI tools across the public and private sectors.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way organizations identify, respond to and recover from cyberattacks. Concurrently, bad actors are weaponizing AI as both an attack vector and attack surface, adding to the growing list of digital vulnerabilities and blind spots in the insider risk space. In 2019, a reported 14,000 deepfake videos were found online, a 100% increase over those detected just one year prior. One of the most prominent forms of AI exploited by bad actors today is a deepfake. To put it simply, a deepfake is a type of AI-generated media that depicts a person saying or doing something they did not say or do.

The second edition of the Global AI Summit kicked off Tuesday morning in the Saudi capital Riyadh, bringing together various stakeholders and academics to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and the Kingdom's contribution to this field. Over 200 speakers representing 90 countries have come together for the global summit that will run until September 15 at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center and under the patronage of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Global AI Summit, organized by Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA), will touch on topics such as the impact of AI on the public and private sectors, healthcare, environment, transportation, smart cities and culture among other matters. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. SDAIA said on its website that "tech companies, startups, investors, and entrepreneurs [will] meet at the Global AI Summit to shape the future of AI." Speaking at the opening ceremony of the summit, Saudi Minister of Communications & Information Technology Abdullah Alswaha said that Saudi Arabia "has become the largest tech force of coders and data scientists," adding that there are currently more than 70,000 trainees in this field.

Within the next decade, the world will see a major disruption of the workforce due to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. According to a McKinsey Global Institute report, 375 million workers, or about 14 percent of the global workforce, may be required to shift occupations as digitization, automation, and AI technologies start to take over the workspace. In a separate 2018 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), half of the global workforce is expected to be impacted one way or another by machine-learning technologies. AI technology will be at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and it will prove to be a far greater challenge than the ones that preceded it. If the world does not prepare, robots and technology could cause mass unemployment.

While this summer's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics took place without being hit by major incidents such as a terrorist attack thanks to the unprecedented scale of security operations by police and the Games' organizing committee, an expert touted the use of cutting-edge technologies, including a facial recognition system, as well as public-private cooperation as a legacy from the events. The Tokyo Games organizing committee formed a joint venture of 553 security service companies from around Japan, with up to 14,000 personnel mobilized per day to guard the athletes village and competition venues. About 59,900 police officers were gathered from police departments from across the country, including those belonging to Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department. A facial recognition system was used for the first time in Olympic and Paralympic history for personal identification of athletes and staff officials entering the athletes village, match venues and other places related to the Tokyo Games. More than 300 face recognition devices for the system, developed by Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp., were installed.

According to the newly launched initiative, faster progress on AI is vital to make this happen, especially in low and middle-income countries, where the most lives are lost on the roads each year. AI can help in different ways, including better collection and analysis of crash data, enhancing road infrastructure, increasing the efficiency of post-crash response, and inspiring innovation in the regulatory frameworks. This approach requires equitable access to data and the ethical use of algorithms, which many countries currently lack, leaving them unable to identify road safety solutions. Announcing the initiative, the ITU Secretary-General, Houlin Zhao, said the disproportionate number of road deaths in developing countries "is yet another example of why the benefits of new technologies must reach everyone, everywhere". The new initiative aims to strengthen global AI efforts across the public and private sectors to improve safety for all road users -- whether traveling by automobile, motorcycle, bicycle, foot or other transportation modes.

Dubai-based Forward Investments announced it has invested in Nozomi Networks, a global market leader in Operational Technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) security, headquartered in San Francisco, USA. This investment represents the strong relationship forged between the two entities and plays a role in fueling innovation in the delivery of Information Technology (IT), OT and IoT cybersecurity services to enterprises across the public and private sectors in the UAE and broader Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Nozomi Networks helps clients fulfill their vision to deliver digital utilities using autonomous systems for renewable energy, storage, and expansion in artificial intelligence (AI) adoption by providing digital services," said H.E. Saeed Al Tayer, Chairman of Forward Investments. "Given escalating cyber risks to ICS and control networks, advanced monitoring and threat detection systems play an increasingly critical role. It seems fitting that the pioneering investment for Forward Investments is with Nozomi Networks, itself a pioneer in securing the modernization of critical industrial infrastructure in the region and around the globe."

From autonomous vehicles to virtual assistants, artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly present in our daily lives, and yet we are really just at the beginning of the curve. A powerful, transformative technology though it is, dealing with vast amounts of data, applications are already triggering unease in the public and the continued adoption of the game-changing technology must be balanced with heightened scrutiny towards policy, regulation, and ethics. The need for more stringent oversight is demonstrated by the increasing reliance we place on this technology in our daily lives -- in the case of driverless cars, we'd be placing our lives in the hands of AI. But it's also demonstrated in use by businesses and organizations. In the case of law enforcement, Flaws, or incompleteness in the data used by facial recognition systems in law enforcement, for example, can lead to racial profiling or misidentification of suspects, or add to the sense of an invasive surveillance culture at best.

What is the vision and mission strategy of MBZUAI? The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) was established as the world's first graduate-level, research-based artificial intelligence (AI) University, with the aim to empower students, businesses and governments to advance AI as a global force for positive progress. It complements the ambitions of Abu Dhabi, and the UAE as a whole, to use the transformative potential of AI to support economic diversification. Our intention through MBZUAI is to evolve interdisciplinary, collaborative research, and development capability in the field of AI – and of course, educating students to become future leaders and innovators is a significant component of this. Students at MBZUAI will be provided with the depth and breadth of knowledge that will enable them to use AI as a tool to foster knowledge creation and economic growth.