It found that the security giant Evolv lied about the accuracy of its AI-powered security checkpoints, which are used in stadiums and schools but failed to catch a seven-inch knife that was ultimately used to stab a student. It went after the facial recognition company Intellivision, saying the company made unfounded claims that its tools operated without gender or racial bias. It fined startups promising bogus "AI lawyer" services and one that sold fake product reviews generated with AI. These actions did not result in fines that crippled the companies, but they did stop them from making false statements and offered customers ways to recover their money or get out of contracts. In each case, the FTC found, everyday people had been harmed by AI companies that let their technologies run amok.

At first, in mid-November, the mysterious lights were seen blinking across the night skies of New Jersey. Reports of incandescent flying objects were logged in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Bystanders in Virginia Beach said they saw an aircraft "unlike any other they've seen". Sightings have now come from as far afield as Louisiana, Florida and Arizona. People across the US are looking up.

Fox News' Danamarie McNicholl reports alongside the Secret Service as they detect and prevent the use of credit card skimmers, traced to a crime ring led in Eastern Europe. Pig-butchering scams are getting more sophisticated -- and more costly -- by the day. One report found criminals have swindled an estimated 75 billion from victims. And just recently, a criminal organization in Asia was taken down, adding another 46 million to that tally. I've talked to lots of pig-butchering victims.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The deceptive use of artificial intelligence should be a priority for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), three commissioner nominees said at a confirmation hearing Tuesday in show of bipartisanship on the popular issue. The hearing was held to consider the re-nomination of Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, along with the nominations of two Republicans, Andrew Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak, the solicitors general of Virginia and Utah, respectively. Ferguson was chief counsel to U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell from 2019 until 2021.

Just think a being like God is descended to this world what can he do? We longer need to fight for resources nor there be hunger neither hatred a utopia where everyone can have whatever they desire sounds like fantasy?

In a blog post this week, the Federal Trade Commission signaled that it's taking a hard look at bias in AI, warning businesses that selling or using such systems could constitute a violation of federal law. "The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices," the post reads. "That would include the sale or use of – for example – racially biased algorithms." The post also notes that biased AI can violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. "The FCRA comes into play in certain circumstances where an algorithm is used to deny people employment, housing, credit, insurance, or other benefits," it says.

The relationship between bigdata and Artificial Intelligence has been at the center of the speech of the Acting Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, at the Forum for the Future of Privacy, reported in the document entitled "Protecting consumer privacy in times of crisis", on February 10, 2021. The starting point of her talk was this undoubtedly relevant observation: "…companies are collecting and using consumer data in illegal ways: we should require violators to reject not only the illegally obtained data, but also the benefits -- here, the algorithms -- generated by that data." Slaughter then proposes, downstream from recent cases involving photo apps or women's tech apps, that effective consumer notification of wrongdoing should be used, and have a greater impact, than FTC enforcement orders, which remain all but unknown. And there's a point to this strategy, which she explains in the next few lines: "The notice allows consumers to show their opinion and helps them better decide whether to recommend the service to others. Finally, and crucially, notice grants consumers the dignity of knowing what happened. There's a fundamental issue of fairness here: many people -- including those who need to know most -- won't know about the FTC's action against a company they're dealing with unless the company tells them. So, I'm going to push staff to include provisions requiring notice in orders about privacy and data security as a systematic matter."

Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots?

Two menacing men stand next to a white van in a field, holding remote controls. They open the van's back doors, and the whining sound of quadcopter drones crescendos. They flip a switch, and the drones swarm out like bats from a cave. In a few seconds, we cut to a college classroom. The students scream in terror, trapped inside, as the drones attack with deadly force. The lesson that the film, Slaughterbots, is trying to impart is clear: tiny killer robots are either here or a small technological advance away. And existing defences are weak or nonexistent.

America's first autonomous robot farm launched last week, in the hopes that artificial intelligence (AI) can remake an industry facing a serious labor shortage and pressure to produce more crops. Claiming an ability to "grow 30 times more produce than traditional farms" on the strength of AI software, year-round, soilless hydroponic processes, and moving plants as they grow to efficiently use space, the San Carlos, California-based company Iron Ox aims to address some of the agricultural industry's biggest challenges. Such challenges have also caught the attention of investors, who made more than $10bn in investments last year, representing a 29% increase from 2016. In a 2,000-sq ft grow space, leafy greens and herbs are planted in individual pots housed in 4ft by 8ft white "grow modules", which weigh about 800lb. Autonomous machines do the heavy lifting, farming and sensing.