{"id":32360,"date":"2016-12-03T01:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T09:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-dawn-of-ai-congress-is-discussing-what-well-do-in-a-world-run-by-robots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:00:47","slug":"the-dawn-of-ai-congress-is-discussing-what-well-do-in-a-world-run-by-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-dawn-of-ai-congress-is-discussing-what-well-do-in-a-world-run-by-robots","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn of AI: Congress Is Discussing What We\u2019ll Do in a World Run by Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-dawn-of-ai-congress-is-discussing-what-well-do-in-a-world-run-by-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week\u2019s US Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness focused on the impact AI has in various sectors of US society.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists predict that investments in AI will increase by more than 300 percent over the next few years, meaning AI will have a more prominent role in society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senator Ted Cruz opened up last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/hearings?Id=042DC718-9250-44C0-9BFE-E0371AFAEBAB&Statement_id=DDC04E74-E6C7-431B-BBCD-BB3740685B29\">Wednesday\u2019s hearing<\/a> by the US Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness with a description of the changing landscape of technology: \u201cWhether we recognize it or not, artificial intelligence is already seeping into our daily lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Cruz explained that scientists are predicting how investments in AI will increase by more than 300 percent in the next few years, which means AI will have a more prominent role in society. With that in mind, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/hearings?id=042DC718-9250-44C0-9BFE-E0371AFAEBAB\" target=\"_blank\">the subcommittee\u2019s hearing<\/a> focused on the impact AI has in various sectors of US society, and how to best ensure US leadership in AI development.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-dawn-of-ai-congress-is-discussing-what-well-do-in-a-world-run-by-robots\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-dawn-of-ai-congress-is-discussing-w...by-robots\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief Last week\u2019s US Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness focused on the impact AI has in various sectors of US society. Scientists predict that investments in AI will increase by more than 300 percent over the next few years, meaning AI will have a more prominent role in society. Senator Ted Cruz [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59589,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32360\/revisions\/59589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}