Host next on booktv, programs from the archives that focus on technology. You can watch them by visiting the website of booktv. Org my job is to model risk for a living. The same companies that control the lions share of patterns that have an extraordinary amount of money that are able to attract the best talent and fo food. It is something that is Companies Like salesforce that are not doing amazing things. In addition to the things i might mention, they are also building the frameworks and custom chips. If its the case of Artificial Intelligence although that is cool to optimize our lives using data as currency what does it mean when we relegate that to just a handful of companies and handful of people working at these companies. What are the implications of that look like . Three of them are in china and they are back. Anybody that watches china knows they are still under the thumb of beijing. The. Hes very smart and a very effective leader and a longterm planner. China has a cultur
Business professor amy webb argues Artificial Intelligence is giving too much power to big corporations. My job is to model risk and i focus on technology and i come back to the same nine companies. They have relationships with universities and it doesnt mean that there are not other Companies Like salesforce or guber that are not doing Amazing Things they are also building the frameworks and theyve got the code bases. All of the roads lead to this end of the challenge that i have is if it is the case that Artificial Intelligence is not just being built to create a better microwave, although that is cool but to optimize our lives using a. Companies that dont look like us and dont have the same worldview as assess their publicly traded companies but i lived in china and japan and anybody that watches does publicly traded companies are still under the thumb of beijing aso there is no escape. It is because you are in lockstep with the Chinese Government and that matters because they had a
Information trade how big tech conquers countries, challenges our rights, and transforms our world. Can you hear me without the mic . No, okay. Can you hear me with the mic . Also know. Heads up in the back. Alexis is the deputy ceo of new york city where she runs basically a policy Experiment Lab trying to get vendors to compete for who cana devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens ofpr new york. She is an adjunct professor of media and communications and she spent a couple of decades studying these issues extremely intensively as doctoral student and then as a member of the staff of the u. N. Mission, of the state department, and also just thinking her guilty about the witches so clear from this book which i really admire. A quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] just jump right in. This book is about what you call take a minute and tell us what those arent what you felt we needed a new category for them. Sure. Thankdo you all for coming. So wonderfu
Mccabe, a frequent target of president trumps rage over the russia investigation gets word he will not face prosecution. This as questions swirl about how much influence the president has over the department of justice and its investigation. All that plus in memoriam. The Los Angeles Lakers reveal their plans for a Massive Public memorial at the Staples Center for kobe bryant and his 13yearold daughter gigi. Scary scene. A tow truck driver incredibly gets back on his feet after getting knocked down by someone driving a stolen vehicle. And close call. A giant asteroid three times the size of the Empire State Building is hurtling by earth this morning. But dont worry its missing us. Today, saturday, february 15th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news this is today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today and thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. You hear about that ostroastero missing us it feels like its a li
Nissan scrapped its payout entirely. Changes at the top. Ubs begins its search for a successor to ceo Sergio Ermotti. They are said to be seeking internal and external candidates. Good morning, just under an hour away from the start of the cash equity trading day in europe. Lets take a look at the futures picture. The picture around the asian equity session was one that was flat and negative, and this is the picture we have for european futures. European futures showing a bit of upside to the start of the trading day, as our u. S. Futures. We are expecting to see more movement, but coronavirus remains a big topic of discussion. And expectations about what Central Banks can do is at the forefront of investors minds, when we look at the resilient futures. Lets get to the breaking data. We have german Economic Data for the German Economy, stagnating in the Fourth Quarter. That is our red headline across the board. The quarter on quarter number, unchanged. There is the stagnation for you.