Russian President Putin Admits Using Supercomputer Software To Make Decisions Such As Ukraine  (SAT PAR News Oct 30, 2014) Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the President of Russia has admitted to using a artificial Intelligence policy decision tool called "Red Star". The software runs on a supercomputer created by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in cooperation with the company Ruselectronics. President Putin does not regret some actions with Ukraine but is concerned about moving equipment and troops near the border and eventually moving some assets into the Ukraine territory. He spoke on Russian television Channel One, "Moving Russian troops to such a volatile area was not helpful, but Red Star is usually correct in the end. In this case I am not so sure." Due to President Putin's misgivings on the approaches to Ukraine, he has ordered a team of programmers to analyze the Red Star application to understand why it ignored so many risks in the analysis. Western intelligence sources were caught off guard, with both the announced of software making the Ukraine decision, and even the existence of such software. "We had no clue!, We are scrambling to make sense of this." said one frustrated US intelligence officer that was anonymously quoted due to the sensitivity of the issue.

White House Admits Using Apology Software For Vice President Biden  (SAT PAR News Oct 06, 2014) The latest in a seemingly unstoppable flood of gaffs from Vice president Joesph R. Biden involving a comment about Turkey admitting blame for letting too many Al Qaeda fighters through their border has revealed the method of responding to the embarrassing public misspoken statements. Most of the gaff come from the Vice president, however the President himself and many agency heads are not immune of course. What has fascinated technophiles and polticos is the admission by the White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough that they use artificial intelligence software to form responses. McDonough refuses to say where they got the software but he does admit that due to the frequency of the Vice President Biden's off the cuff remarks, they needed an extra hand to assist in forming responses in sensitive situation. McDonouugh was not apologetic, "Frankly we get more benefit from the Vice President when he is relaxed and speaking freely, we connect to the common voter that way. Yes, we have to make course corrections when a volley of his words hits a bad note, but we think it is worth it for the value we get." The software reportedly can frame a response when the target audience is indicated and the gaff is identified. The program requires a huge database of cultural and political sensitivities of most active groups and countries from around the world and in the United States.

Apple's Updated Siri Works With Scientology To Solve Problems - Personal & Business (SAT PAR News Aug 18, 2014) Not content with your smartphone answering every little known fact in existence, Apple has added a Scientology artificial intelligence application to answer any other question you might have. Apple CEO Tim Cook explained how it works, "Siri will first determine whether this is a fact-based question, if it is not, then the application will search a vast database of ethical and best practices for most types of situations as developed by Scientology information specialists. This can be personal relationships of all types, complicated agreement issues, business planning, and we even have a large section for child disputes. Getting younger we have advice for unhappy babies. We even have solutions for pet owners, the list is astounding. If this is an unexplored issue, Siri will combine related advice to get the best answer. Apple believes Siri is now the one stop virtual person to get the best advice. You will never be without answers to any situation again, we can promise that!" Controversy has erupted however over the use of Scientology to guide the system. CNET, the technology publishing company which also conducts software tests and reviews, noted that the answers are based around the premise of "All you need to solve the problem is enough data. Step outside your preconceptions, step outside the control of those who are causing the problem, and look for the information you are missing." CNET noted that this works for fact based problems but does little good for a 15 year old determining what to do with messy issues in dating, making decisions to engage in whistleblowing, or deciding on a career that may or may not be helping people. In other words Scientology lacks any real core of ethics and morals, so when problems arise in that area, the advice does not work. CNET found that the advice of close friends, parents, counselors, and religious advisers provided real world usable and on target ethical advice 96% more times than when the exact same personal problems were posed to those groups and Siri.

Twitter Bots Given Okay For Legal Protection - First Interactive Internet Use Of Artificial Intelligence (SAT PAR News Aug 12, 2014) Until recently there were several automated Twitter accounts that either created humor with combined nonsense words from current news or SPAM which has the focus of regulators. What is new is the traditional Twitter bots - which are continuously running applications sending Tweets based on whatever parameters were set to trigger the tweets with frequency, content, and various filters -  are now supercharged with a hyper-neural matrix (HNM). This is basically a complex system of decision making based on the algorithms used in the stock market by high speed traders. What is different is that instead of a set of trading decisions based on many factors is how to respond to humans based on many interrelated factors. For example if you sent a message saying you are concerned about food and supplies to trapped people in a flooded area in a far away country, the Twitter bot would look at current US policy, UN food programs, NGO efforts, recent polls, statistics, current climate, agriculture and many more factors before composing a reply. The result is an opinion sounding like the editors or the Washington Post or the New York Times. Based on the amazing human quality of writing (emphatic argument) and of course well cited sources, the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research has concluded they are intelligent entities and will reduce the need for exploiting humans in the future for many types of psychological research, human research ethics being a main focus of the group. In response to this, the UN International Institute for Software Technology (UNU – IIST) has declared that the "Virtual Human Twitter Bots (VHTB)" should be given free speech rights and protection in every country in the world. One unanswered question is that since the bots are close to being human intelligent, what ethics should we have for them, in experiments, in modifications, in control?