Google launches global council to advise on AI and tech ethics

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it was launching a global advisory council to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

The council, which is slated to publish a report at the end of 2019, includes technology experts, digital ethicists, and people with public policy backgrounds, Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president for global affairs, said at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference.

The group is meant to provide recommendations for Google and other companies and researchers working in areas such as facial recognition software, a form of automation that has prompted concerns about racial bias and other limitations.

“We want to have the most informed and thoughtful conversations we can,” Walker said on stage at the MIT Technology Review event in San Francisco. “We want to sit down with the council and see what agenda they want to set.”

Google already has its own internal AI principles, which, among other provisions, bars the California-based tech firm from using AI to develop weapons.

The eight-member Advanced Technology External Advisory Council includes Joanna Bryson, an associate professor in computing at the University of Bath; William J. Burns, a former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and Dyan Gibbens, chief executive of Houston-based drone startup Trumbull, according to a Google blog post.

The council will meet four times, beginning in April, the blog post said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-ai-idUSKCN1R72DM

Trump Plans Executive Order To Study Risks Of EMP Attack

Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:45

In what would be a major about-face for the federal government, President Trump is reportedly preparing to sign an executive order to study the risks of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the US.

Despite the fact that a growing number of scientists and national security experts see an EMP attack on the US electricity grid as one of the greatest terror threats facing the country, the DoD decided in late 2017 to defund a Congressional committee that had been studying the EMP threat since 2001. The DoD terminated funding for the Commission to Assess the Threat to the US from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack in September 2017, just as the threat from North Korea - considered a rogue state that could pull off an EMP attack with one of its nukes - was reaching a fever pitch.

NEWS: Trump is preparing to sign an executive order meant to help deal with potential electromagnetic pulse events.

Some lawmakers and scientists have long worried that a rogue nation with the technological know-how might attack the U.S. electric grid with an EMP.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 26, 2019

Experts determined that a successful attack doesn’t even require a Super-EMP weapon. What's worse, the Commission concluded that even a primitive weapon could successfully render our infrastructure obsolete. BBG reported that the fear that a 'rogue nation' could shut down the US electricity grid with a well-placed EMP helped inspire the president's order.

Several declassified 2017 reports from the Commission that were released earlier this year also revealed that Russia, China and several other nations had been developing powerful high-altitude nuclear bombs intended to produce super-electromagnetic pulse (EMP) waves capable of knocking out critical electronic infrastructure.

The Commission, and outside experts, have also claimed that North Korea has the capability to carry out an EMP attack on the US. And during the hostilities with the US back in 2017, Kim Jong Un even reportedly threatened to carry out such an attack.

Here's what the report said about threat posed by EMPs: (…)

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-26/trump-plans-executive-order-study-risks-emp-attack

Again:

Boeing 737 Max 8 emergency landing

(geman)

Nach zwei Abstürzen in kurzer Zeit ist erneut ein Flugzeug vom Typ Boeing 737 Max 8 in Schwierigkeiten geraten: Die Maschine von Southwest Airlines musste bei einem Überführungsflug in den USA notlanden - Passagiere waren nicht an Bord.

no passengers on bord, only crew members.

In den USA hat ein Flugzeug vom Typ Boeing 737 Max 8 bei einer Überführung wegen Triebwerksproblemen notlanden müssen. Die Maschine der US-Fluggesellschaft Southwest Airlines habe kurz nach dem Start vom Flughafen Orlando im US-Bundesstaat Florida umdrehen müssen und sei danach sicher wieder in Orlando gelandet, sagte ein Sprecher der US-Luftfahrtbehörde FAA.

Keine Passagiere an Bord.

Die Fluggesellschaft selbst erklärte, es seien keine Passagiere an Bord gewesen, sondern nur Crew-Mitglieder. Das Flugzeug war demnach auf dem Weg zu einem Lagergelände in Victorville im US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien, wo ausrangierte oder reparaturbedürftige Flugzeuge untergebracht werden.

Die betroffene Maschine werde nun in den Wartungsbereich am Flughafen Orlando verlegt und dort untersucht. Laut Sprecher hätten die Piloten kurz nach dem Start in Orlando Probleme mit einem der Triebwerke gemeldet und seien daher umgedreht.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/boeing-193.html

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