Breaking Barrier

  While most Europeans see AI as beneficial to the economy and quality of life, our latest Eurobarometer reveals continued attention to keeping its use fair and ethical:  62% of Europeans view robots and AI positively at work,  66% think digital technologies have a positive impact on their job, 67% perceive the use of digital technologies positively for improving workers' safety and security,  For the 84% of Europeans who believe AI requires careful management, rest assured—we are on it! New guidelines defining which practices conform to the EU AI Act recently entered into effect, ensuring European citizens can safely and confidently embrace AI where it works best for us. What is your view of AI at work? Tell us in the comments.

In June 2015, ISIS burned 19 Yazidi girls alive in iron cages because they refused to sleep with the jihadists. These girls—innocent and full of hope for a life that was stolen from them—experienced a death so brutal, so cruel, and so inhuman that it is almost impossible to find the words to describe the horror. Their screams echo in the ears of those who have seen images of this atrocity, yet the world seems deaf to their agony. They howled in pain as their bodies were slowly consumed by flames, fighting for life with an unspeakable despair. And what happened at that moment? Hundreds stood by and watched. Hundreds who did nothing, who took no action to stop this barbaric spectacle. Hundreds who showed not the slightest movement of outrage as these young girls—just girls, like your daughter, your sister, or your friend—were driven into the flames. Yes, perhaps in our society we sometimes burn books, but ISIS—and many who claim to act "in the name of faith" for the sake of the...