The Bishop of Oxford, who sits of the House of Lords select committee on AI, urged the Government and the technology industry to take the ethical implications of AI advancements seriously.

Speaking at the event ‘Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Innovation, Funding and Policy Priorities’, Rev Steven Croft detailed his modern commandments for robots, which focus on data protection, ethics, criminal subversion and restrictions AI’s power “to destroy.”

Rev Croft said he became concerned about the power of AI after reading an article in The Times about a robotic vacuum cleaner.

Writing in his blog he explained: “The robot will use AI to navigate the best route round your living room.

“To do this, it will make a map of your room using its on-board cameras.

“The cameras will then transmit the data back to the company who make the robot.

“They can sell the data on to well known on line retailers who can then email you with specific suggestions of cushion covers or lamps to match your furniture.

“All of this will be done with no human input whatsoever.”

His commandments include: “The primary purpose of AI should be to enhance and augment, rather than replace, human labour and creativity.” While another states: “Governments should ensure that the best research and application of AI is directed towards the most urgent…

The Just Finance Foundation wants to see financial education lessons become a compulsory part of school curriculums in the UK.

Executive director, Rowena Young told Premier: “Children are starting to develop their fundamental understanding, attitudes and behaviour towards money as young as seven.

“We’re working in some primary schools across the UK but really we’re [saying] that every child needs access to that sort of education.”

Just Finance is suggesting that money skills become incorporated into existing personal, social, health, and economic education (PSHE) classes in schools.

Leaders say the classes are particularly pertinent, given growing levels of financial insecurity and problem debt in UK.

Citing figures by the Financial Conduct Authority which show 40 per cent of UK adults have less than £100 in savings, Just Finance says problems with managing finance are becoming “a mainstream issue”.

Explaining how the lessons would work, Rowena Young said: “It’s about really understanding the dynamics of money and where it’s going, and it’s [about] thinking through the importance of putting a little bit away for things that are coming up in the future, not just living in the here and now.”

Most Rev Justin Welby is president of the Just Finance Foundation.

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Wearing his clerical collar, George Pell attended a hearing at Melbourne Magistrates Court to determine whether prosecutors have sufficient evidence to put him on trial.

The cardinal’s committal hearing before Magistrate Belinda Wallington is scheduled to take up to a month, with testimony of alleged victims to be suppressed from publication.

Pell arrived by car and was flanked by police and one of his lawyers, Paul Galbally, as he walked through a large group of media and into the court security screening area.

He remained silent as he entered.

He emptied his pockets before walking through a security metal detector and a security guarded frisked him in a routine procedure.

Other security guards ensured the public kept their distance from the 76-year-old cleric in the foyers of the seven-floor downtown court house in Australia’s second-largest city where he was once archbishop.

Pope Francis’ former finance minister was charged in June of last year with sexually abusing multiple people in his Australian home state of Victoria.

The details of the allegations against the cardinal have yet to be released to the public, though police have described the charges as “historical” sexual assault offences – meaning the crimes that are alleged to have occurred decades ago.

The case places both the cardinal and the Pope in potentially perilous territory.

For Pell, the charges are a…