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Facial recognition software’s struggle to identify transgender and “nonbinary” people could have dangerous results in the future, according to a report from Vice’s Motherboard.

ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, a website created by an Uber software engineer, generates hyper-realistic portraits of people who don’t actually exist.

IBM’s new A.I. took to the stage recently to battle with a champion debater — the artificial intelligence lost the debate but showed just how far A.I. has come in recent years.

Hollywood starlet Scarlett Johansson has responded to the creation of realistic “deepfake” A.I.-generated porn videos featuring her face, claiming it is a “lost cause” to attempt to take action against such videos.

Artificial intelligence has been used to created hyper-realistic portrait photographs of men, women, and children of different races who never existed, prompting one author to declare the “end of photography as evidence.”

Google Home A.I. assistant devices will reportedly notice if owners say “please” and “thank you,” and will give more cheery replies, as part of a newly implemented feature called “pretty please.”

A.I. used by Google in Gmail to auto-suggest words to users while they’re typing will not suggest “gender-based pronouns” for fear of misgendering people and causing offense, according to a report.

Amazon has fixed its A.I. assistant Alexa after devices were describing CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta as a “fake journalist.”

Xinhua, a news agency owned and controlled by the Chinese government, has revealed an artificial intelligence news anchor modeled on a real-life anchor at the agency.

A painting portraying a man created completely by artificial intelligence sold for $432,000 at auction this week. The painting, titled Portrait of Edmond Belamy, was auctioned at Christie’s auction house, and was estimated to sell for between $7,000 and $10,000 — but

Amazon reportedly shut down an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment tool after it repeatedly discriminated against female candidates.

Google will reportedly not be bidding on the JEDI contract, a massive Department of Defense cloud computing contract worth $10 billion, with the company citing its “A.I. Principles” for its refusal to bid.

Tech giant Google and social media giant Facebook are reportedly teaming up to develop new artificial intelligence technology.

In Julian Assange’s final interview before Ecuadorian officials shut off his internet access, the WikiLeaks founder told the World Ethical Data Forum in Barcelona, Spain, that artificial intelligence will replace capitalism, not only by transforming current industries but creating “whole new sectors.”

A.I. is a bigger concern than terrorism or climate change, according to the new head of the British Science Association.

Wired Magazine published a column last week that condemns the lack of women in the artificial intelligence field.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stated in a recent tweet that artificial intelligence may soon be used to determine “credible voices” on the social media platform.

Thousands of tech leaders pledged this week to not develop lethal autonomous weapons and called on governments to create laws and regulations around such weapons.

Google engineers refused to make a tool which would win the company military contracts, according to a report.

Facebook can now use artificial intelligence to alter user selfies to fix common issues such as blinking during a photo.

Uber is attempting to patent A.I. technology which would determine whether potential passengers are drunk, to “reduce undesired consequences.”

Google promised that their artificial intelligence would not be used for weaponry, following criticism over their contract with the Pentagon.

Google will not renew their artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon, following both internal and external complaints, according to a report.

London hospitals will soon replace doctors and nurses with artificial intelligence for various medical tasks, according to a report.

Executives from tech companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook are set to attend a discussion on Artificial Intelligence at the White House on Thursday.

Google has rebranded its research department to Google AI in an attempt to “better reflect” its “emphasis on implementing machine learning techniques in nearly everything we do at Google.”

As he scans the news about tech abuses—from violating privacy, to manipulating the news, to mowing down pedestrians with driverless cars—Virgil is reminded that this year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein.  

Most Americans think A.I. will destroy more jobs than it creates, however less than a quarter are afraid of being replaced themselves, according to a report.

Former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt claimed Terminator-style A.I. “death scenarios” are “one to two decades away,” during the Munich Security Conference last month.

Futurist Professor Michio Kaku claimed smart robots could “become dangerous,” and that humans may have to “merge” with machines, during an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit this week.