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Eye on A.I.

Artificial Intelligence stays mired in the average person's mind as something of a science fiction-type character, but A.I. is not one and the same as a robot. Simply put, AI is everywhere. It's guiding GPS and Google Maps. It's on Facebook. It's in Google.

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Pope Francis greets faithful after celebrating Mass on the occasion of the Migrant and Refugee World Day, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis warns of barbaric artificial intelligence

A Starship Technologies robot drives through campus delivering food at Purdue University, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, in West Lafayette, Ind. For the past month, Purdue students have seen little robots making their way across campus, down sidewalks and across streets. They're white and cooler-sized, with six little wheels and a long pole with an orange flag alerting those around of their presence. (Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier via AP)

Robot priests, A.I. gods transforming the world of worship

Founder of Alibaba group Jack Ma arrives for the Tech for Good summit, Wednesday, May 15, 2019 in Paris. World leaders and tech bosses meet Wednesday in Paris to discuss ways to prevent social media from spreading deadly ideas. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

A.I.'s lure of 12-hour work week a recipe for human disaster

Berkeley Police officers stand guard for planned speech by Milo Yiannopoulos in Berkeley, Calif., Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. Milo Yiannopoulos was whisked away in a car after a brief appearance at the school that drew a few dozen supporters and a slightly larger crowd protesting the right-wing provocateur. (AP Photo/Daisy Nguyen)

A.I. unleashed on college kids to determine 'hate speech'

This Feb. 19, 2014, file photo, shows WhatsApp and Facebook app icons on a smartphone in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Americans at long last awakening to dangers, darkness of Big Tech

Siri caught with ear on your 'sexual encounters'

This photo taken Tuesday, May 7, 2019, shows a security camera in the Financial District of San Francisco. A civilian board that oversees Detroit police has approved the use of facial recognition technology to investigate crimes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) ** FILE **

'Ban Facial Recognition' campaign kickstarts -- but in futility

In this Sept, 4, 2014 photo, a surgeon performs a breast implant surgery at the metropolitan outpatient surgery center in Caracas, Venezuela. Doctors say restrictive currency controls that deprive local businesses of the cash to import foreign goods have caused implants approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to disappear. It may not be the gravest shortfall facing the socialist South American country, but surgeons say the issue cuts to the psyche of the image-conscious Venezuelan woman. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Men make better surgeons, doctors say -- and female physicians agree

Facebook 'stalking' never quits -- and it's about to get worse

A Chinese national flag flutters near the surveillance cameras mounted on a lamp post in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Friday, March 15, 2019. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday denied Beijing tells its companies to spy abroad, refuting U.S. warnings that Chinese technology suppliers might be a security risk. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China's chilling pre-crime prison indoctrination system

In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo people stand in the lobby for Amazon offices in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Parents' nightmare, as Alexa is sued for recording little kids

In this April 14, 2015, file photo provided by the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Charles Y. Liu, left, a neurosurgeon at the University of Southern California, laughs with patient Erik Sorto in Pasadena, Calif. Liu led a team of doctors that implanted tiny chips into Sorto's brain in 2013 to allow him to control a robotic arm using his thoughts. It's the latest attempt at creating mind-controlled prosthetics to help disabled people gain more independence. (Lance Hayashida/Caltech via AP) ** FILE **

Brain chipping for good -- brain chipping for bad

This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Twitter's new 'Fabula' fake news finder hints at more anti-conservative bias

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos walks onstage for the launch of the new Amazon Fire Phone, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Amazon's human emotion reader a tad of technological unease

In this undated photo made from video, 12-year-old cancer patient Ethan Daniels at a medical facility in Atlanta speaks with Aaron Horowitz, co-founder and CEO of Sproutel, who designed &quot;My Special Aflac Duck&quot; to promote emotional well-being by helping children living with cancer develop a sense of control and manage stress through interactive technology. (AP Photo/Marina Hutchinson) ** FILE **

Cage the rage, punch a robot

A security camera is placed in a New York subway station, Thursday, April 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A.I. that halts thieves -- before they steal

Quitting your job? Shh -- technology may tattle

Google shutters A.I. ethics board after LGBTQs attack conservatives

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Freedom, in the hands of an algorithm

In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg listens to a question as he testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mark Zuckerberg's mind-reading madness

Hanson Robotics' flagship robot Sophia, a lifelike robot powered by artificial intelligence, speaks with visitors, at the Mobile World Congress wireless show, in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) ** FILE **

When A.I. says you're mentally ill ...

China's duplicitous call for 'arms race' controls on A.I.

Tony Danna, left, vice president of international development at Three Square Market in River Falls, Wis., reacts while getting a microchip implanted in his left hand at company headquarters on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. The company is making microchips available to its employees, allowing them to open doors, log onto their computers or buy break room snacks by simply waving their hand. (AP Photos/Jeff Baenen) ** FILE **

Arkansas takes stab at regulating human microchipping

This Feb. 16, 2017, photo shows newborn babies in the nursery of a postpartum recovery center in upstate New York. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Diapers for dummies -- or technology that shouldn't be

Hansjoerg Reick looks at a display of Oral-B Genius X smart toothbrushes at the Procter &amp; Gamble booth before CES International, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Technology in your toothbrush, telling you how to brush

AvatarMind has developed service robots like iPal which is based on artificial intelligence, motion control, sensors and power management, and created iPal to deliver on that vision with multiple applications for friendly, fun and functional robot assistants, shown at CES International Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Las Vegas. Designed for child education and elder care, iPal is a fully functional humanoid robot with a friendly, playful demeanor, as iPal runs on the Android operating system with extensions for motion, sensor and natural language conversation. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Flying cars, coming to a city near you

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Chronic pain sufferers have technological option to opioids

In this photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board via the Florida Highway Patrol shows a Tesla Model S that was being driven by Joshua Brown, who was killed when the Tesla sedan crashed while in self-driving mode on May 7, 2016. A source tells The Associated Press that U.S. safety regulators are ending an investigation into a fatal crash involving electric car maker Tesla Motors' Autopilot system without a recall. (NTSB via Florida Highway Patrol via AP, File)

Tesla self-driving car mows down, 'kills' robot in Las Vegas

Sensors and cameras, part of a system used to tell what people have purchased, are attached overhead as shoppers walk below, in an Amazon Go store, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Seattle. The artificial intelligence-powered store, which opened to the public Monday, allows shoppers to scan their smartphone with the Amazon Go app at a turnstile, pick out the items they want and leave. The online retail giant can tell what people have purchased and automatically charges their Amazon account. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Biggest tech threat? An unaware America

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