What's worse, being stuck in traffic or on another interminable Microsoft Teams call? Mercedes is teaming up with Microsoft to allow you to take Teams calls while on the go -- and is talking about adding Microsoft Copilot to its suite of luxury cars, too. Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz said Wednesday that the new Mercedes CLA will be able to tap into an in-vehicle camera and give drivers access to a Meetings for Teams application. Somehow, Mercedes is also including Microsoft Intune inside the car, so business workers will be able to access private business data, too. Mercedes is making this part of what it calls MBUX, the Mercedes-Benz user experience.

Microsoft has revealed a number of features it's bringing to Teams calls. It will soon offer CarPlay support, so you can place and answer Teams calls using Siri while you're on the road. Microsoft didn't say whether it would add a similar function for Android Auto or Alexa-enabled cars. Elsewhere, Microsoft has overhauled the call interface with a streamlined design (which it unveiled at its Ignite conference) that pulls together your contacts, voicemail and call history into a single view. Other features include an option to merge calls, enhanced reverse number lookup (i.e.

Artificial intelligence, it seems, can figure out how to do just about anything. It can simulate the Universe, learn to solve a Rubik's Cube with just one hand, and even find ghosts hidden in our past. All these kinds of advancements are meant to be for our own good. In recent times, algorithmic systems that already affect people's lives have demonstrated alarming levels of bias in their operation, doing things like predicting criminality along racial lines and determining credit limits based on gender. Against this backdrop, how can scientists ensure that advanced thinking systems can be fair, or even safe?