Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, the US State Department issued a “Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy,” calling for ethical and responsible deployment of AI in military operations among nations that develop them. The document sets out 12 best practices for the development of military AI capabilities and emphasizes...
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Susan Wojcicki, YouTube’s Longtime CEO, Says She Will Step Down
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Microsoft Considers More Limits for Its New A.I. Chatbot
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Researchers unearth Windows backdoor that’s unusually stealthy
Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) Researchers have discovered a clever piece of malware that stealthily exfiltrates data and executes malicious code from Windows systems by abusing a feature in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). IIS is a general-purpose web server that runs on Windows devices. As a web server, it accepts requests...
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Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits.
Missy Cummings, who spent more than a year at the federal auto safety agency, said that drivers were putting too much trust in systems like Tesla’s Autopilot and that regulators needed to restrict their use.