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While artificial intelligence made headlines with ChatGPT, behind the scenes, the technology has quietly pervaded everyday life — screening job resumes, rental apartment applications, and even determining medical care in some cases. While a number of AI systems have been found to discriminate, tipping the scales in favor of certain races, genders or incomes, there’s scant government oversight. Lawmakers in at least seven state s are taking big legislative swings to regulate bias in artificial intelligence, filling a void left by Congress’ inaction. These proposals are some of the first steps in a decades-long discussion over balancing the benefits of this nebulous new Technology with the widely documented risks. “AI does in fact affect every part of your life whether you know it or not,” said Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a Brown University professor who co-authored the White House’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. “Now, you wouldn’t care if they all worked fine...

Tamara Chuang | Business/Technology Reporter Quick links : Colorado’s C+ grade | Neural data privacy | More privacy bills | Starbucks union wins again Colorado has the second strongest law in the land that protects consumer privacy and data, according to a new report card from a consumer public interest group. But the state also scored a mere C+ for its efforts. Though it has initiated consumer-friendly rules — such as one that will let Coloradans press a button to opt out of having their personal data collected and sold online starting in July — the state’s protections could be much stronger, said R.J. Cross, director of the Don’t Sell My Data campaign for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a progressive advocacy group based in Denver. Most of the 14 states with privacy laws on the books received a D or F rating. As for the other 36 states with no laws? She calls them “incomplete.” Since 2018 44 states have considered comprehensiv...

Beijing's widening curbs on iPhone use by government staff raised concerns among US lawmakers on Thursday and fanned fears that American tech companies heavily exposed to China could take a hit from rising tensions between the countries. Apple closed down 2.9% on Thursday and suffered its worst two-day percentage decline since November -- after news that Beijing has told employees at some central government agencies in recent weeks to stop using their Apple phones at work. Several Wall Street analysts said the curbs show that even a company with a good relationship with the Chinese government and a large presence in the world's second-biggest economy was not immune to rising tensions between the two nations. Sino-US friction has worsened in recent years as Washington tries to restrict China's access to key technologies including cutting-edge chip Technology , and Beijing looks to reduce its reliance on American tech. China's Huawei last week...

Apple has signed a new deal with Arm for chip Technology that "extends beyond 2040," according to Arm's initial public offering documents filed on Tuesday. Arm unveiled pricing on Tuesday for what it hopes will be a $52 billion initial public offering, which would be the largest such deal in the US this year. Arm owner SoftBank Group plans to offer 95.5 million American depository shares of the United Kingdom-based company for $47 to $51 apiece, Arm said in a filing. Arm owns the intellectual property behind the computing architecture for most of the world's smartphones, which it licenses to Apple and many others. Apple uses Arm's Technology in the processes of designing its own custom chips for its iPhones, iPads and Macs. The two companies have a long History - Apple was one of the initial companies that partnered to found the firm in 1990, before the release of its "Newton" handheld computer in 1993, which used an Arm-based p...

BEIJING,: China will explore using 3D printing Technology to construct buildings on the moon, the official China Daily reported on Monday, as Beijing solidifies plans for long-term lunar habitation. In the 2020 Chinese lunar mission, the Chang'e 5, named after the mythical Chinese goddess of the moon, an uncrewed probe took back to Earth China's first lunar soil samples. China, which made its first lunar landing in 2013, plans to land an astronaut on the moon by 2030. Between now and then, China will launch the Chang'e 6, 7 and 8 missions, with the latter tasked to look for reusable resources on the moon for long-term human habitation. The Chang'e 8 probe will conduct on-site investigations of the environment and mineral composition, and also determine whether technologies such as 3D printing can be deployed on the lunar surface, China Daily reported, quoting Wu Weiren, a scientist at the China National Space Administration. "If we wish to stay on the moo...