Robots have stressed they work alongside humans to assist them and have no intention of overthrowing or replacing them, though they suggested they could be more efficient government leaders, as they took questions from reporters in their first-ever press conference.
The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems across the bloc. The vote kick-starts the process toward passing the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act, the first of its kind globally.
Facebook was forced to shut down one of its artificial intelligence systems after researchers discovered that it had started communicating in a language that they could not understand. The incident evokes images of the rise of Skynet in the iconic Terminator series. Perhaps Tesla CEO Elon Musk is right about AI being the biggest risk we face.