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On this episode of KUT's "Texas Standard," Moody College of Communication assistant professor Samantha Shorey chimes in on the burgeoning unionizing of tech workers in the Austin area.

Higher education institutions are also looking at the opportunities and challenges AI brings. Dr. Chandra Bhat, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, helps us learn more about the role of AI in the classroom and as a subject of research.

Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company, has begun testing its fully autonomous cars in Austin with no driver behind the wheel.

For Steven Apodaca, vice chairman of the City of Austin’s Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission, now is the time to get ahead of the emerging technology of artificial intelligence.

Writing copy. Organizing data. Building models to predict trends. All things artificial intelligence can help us do. And it’s a topic Austin City Council members are turning their attention to Thursday.

Amid fears that AI could heighten bias or affect privacy, the state is forming an advisory committee to recommend how the technology is deployed. “We’re gonna have to set up some rules,” the committee’s founder says.

HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A facial recognition software could come to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office in the future.

Artificial intelligence systems are permeating into everyday life faster than ever before. That's why thousands of researchers who develop AI recently wrote an open letter pleading for help regulating the very technology they're creating. But can AI be regulated? Peter Stone, professor of computer science and Good Systems founding member, and Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, weigh in.

Artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to revolutionize many industries, and Austin, Texas, is emerging as a hub for AI innovation. The city is home to a number of AI companies that are working on cutting-edge technology in areas such as autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, and computer vision.

Scientists are unleashing the computerized canines on the Austin campus to study how humans interact with them.