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How to Make Sure Robots Help Us, Not Replace Us

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The world needs robots that make life better, not just ones that put people out of work. But business attitudes, government policy, and scientific priorities are geared toward replacing workers rather than complementing and enhancing their skills. That’s the bottom line of a report by a task force at MIT that was released today.

“It’s super easy to make a business case for reducing head count. You can always light up a boardroom” by promising to replace people with robots, says David Autor, an MIT economist and co-chair of the task force, who gave an interview about the report. It’s harder to get buy-in for robots and other forms of automation that complement human work while improving quality, consistency, and scalability, Autor says.

US finally looking more honestly at China's actions: Gen. James Mattis

Mattis: Finally America is looking more honestly at China’s actions

Former Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis (Ret.) provides insight into unrest in Hong Kong.

Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis appeared on "Cavuto: Coast-to-Coast” Wednesday and drew a distinct comparison between the Obama and Trump administrations’ diplomatic approaches toward the People's Republic of China.

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Mattis said the Trump administration has taken a more “honest” approach to China and how it treats its own citizens.

“Finally, America under this administration looks more honestly at what China's actions are saying,” he said on Tuesday.

On the contrary, Mattis said the Obama administration allowed China to make promises it knew couldn’t be kept.

“When [the] Chinese president promises in the Rose Garden to … President Obama that they would not militarize the Spratly Islands and then they turn around and militarized the Spratly Islands, then we're going to have to recognize,” he said.

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“We don't believe in bullies and we don't believe in militarizing areas that we had freedom for all nations to travel through in the past,” he added.

YouTube fined record £140million for breaking law by collecting children’s data behind parents’ backs – The Sun

YOUTUBE has been fined a record £139million for violating children’s privacy laws.

The company has been accused of collecting data on youngsters under the age of 13 without parental consent.

America’s Federal Trade Commission said the information was used to target adverts at kids in contravention of the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa).

The fine is the largest in a so-called Coppa case.
FTC chairman Joe Simons said: “There’s no excuse for YouTube’s violations of the law.”

YouTube, owned by Google, said its service was aimed at over-13s.

It has a YouTube Kids app which does not target ads based on viewer interests like YouTube does.

The children’s version, however, does track data in order to recommend videos.

The FTC said Google must also create a new system so content aimed at kids is clearly labelled.

Google and YouTube must also be more open about their data-gathering practices.

FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra said Google “baited” kids on YouTube with videos featuring nursery rhymes and cartoons.

He called the proposed changes “insufficient” and said the fine “barely bites”.