{"id":33605,"date":"2017-01-19T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T08:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-government-must-take-on-a-bigger-role-in-shaping-the-development-of-ai"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:56:47","slug":"the-government-must-take-on-a-bigger-role-in-shaping-the-development-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-government-must-take-on-a-bigger-role-in-shaping-the-development-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"The Government Must Take on a Bigger Role in Shaping the Development of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4GB-jdh2H-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/?s=artificial+intelligence\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> is in its crucial developmental stages and the government doesn\u2019t seem to be to keen on shaping the way forward, according to experts during a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/hearings?ID=042DC718-9250-44C0-9BFE-E0371AFAEBAB\" target=\"_blank\">senate inquiry<\/a> into the dawn of AI.<\/p>\n<p>The senate\u2019s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, under the helm of Texas Senator (R) Ted Cruz, convened November 30 to discuss the state of AI research and development, and its policy effects and implications on commerce. According to experts present at the hearing, the government isn\u2019t doing much to provide guidelines and directions on AI research.<\/p>\n<p>The experts, including <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/?s=Microsoft+AI\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Research\u2019s<\/a> managing director Eric Horvitz, believe the government is in a unique position to shape the future of AI \u2013 especially since AI is still in its developmental stages. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/603036\/the-government-isnt-doing-enough-to-solve-big-problems-with-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Horvitz said<\/a> AI innovation can help in areas such as homelessness and addiction where there\u2019s not much investment from the industry yet \u2014 which the government can help pursue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-government-must-take-on-a-bigger-role-in-shaping-the-development-of-ai\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-government-must-take-on-a-bigger-ro...ent-of-ai\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is in its crucial developmental stages and the government doesn\u2019t seem to be to keen on shaping the way forward, according to experts during a senate inquiry into the dawn of AI. The senate\u2019s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, under the helm of Texas Senator \u00ae Ted Cruz, convened November 30 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,31,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-policy","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33605","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59085,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33605\/revisions\/59085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}