Best talent because they are the best food. You know, that have the relationships with universities and it doesnt mean there arent other Companies Like salesforce or uber that are doing Amazing Things but it is these Nine Companies that Everything Else flows. The entire ai ecosystem, in some way or the other, touches these nine. In addition to all the things that i just mentioned they are building the framework and the custom silicone tips and they have the code bases. All roads lead to these Nine Companies in the challenge that i have is that if it is the case that Artificial Intelligence is not just being built to create a better microwave although that is cool that instead to optimize our lives using data as currency what does it mean when we relegate that to just a handful of companies and a handful of people working at these companies who probably dont look like us and dont have the same worldviews as us and what are the longerterm downstream invocations of that look like . Three
Fellowship award for emerging digital arts writer for the art foundation. Resident in the Nonfiction Program fellow. Additionally her essays and reviews have appeared in publications the New York Times wired and many others. She will be joined in conversation this evening by the clinical instructor at from Harvard Law School where they teach students how to Work Technology and then those critiques covering topics such as facial recognition Computer Security and tonight we will discuss her new book calling it a poetic and empathetic history of the internet that will resonate deeply with anyone. To listen and learn not shout and grandstand. Tracing the commercialization of the Digital World in incite full ways for what has been stolen will be recovered we are pleased to host this book event here welcome to joann. [applause] to start i will stand up. It is a short passage but maybe it will make you smile a little bit this is a chapter called sharing. Around the time from the launch in 200
Guest reporter, and our guest this week as former senator gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters. Senator smith, we appreciate you coming into the studio for this interview. Guest always a pleasure, peter. Its nice to be with you even if it is just proximate. Thank you for having me. Host in this age of coronavirus how has this affected americas broadcasters . Guest in many ways its affected us but i think perhaps its unfortunate, but it seems that the United States and our citizens become aware of broadcasting indispensable irreplaceable role in the firmament of American Life when there are natural or other catastrophes and calamities that befall us. Because it is then that the architecture broadcasting, one source of content everybody in a geographic area, without any stress on the system, people begin to realize how valuable broadcasting remains. Survey after survey continues to show that broadcasting remains the most important source of jo
Stay and how you defend yourself in those contexts is one of those conversations that we need to be having so muchmore as a culture. I think it opens up so many doors for people. Megan is herself a writer and activist. She left the Westboro Baptist church in 2012 and isan educator on topics related to extremism and communication across ideological lines. At the age of five megan began protesting homosexuality and other vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist church into beaconkansas. The church was founded by her grandfather and consisted almost entirely of her extended family. The group gained notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As the churchs twitter spokesman megan was one of the few thatinteracted with the outside world. And twitter did something for. Maybe we can applaud it it caused her to begin doubting the Strict Church leaders and their message it humans are sinful and fallible how can the church itself be so con
Colleagues pastime, to get this done for the country. Dance unanimous consent. Mitch mcconnell may speak for a few minutes. I appreciate the opportunity. Im here this afternoon to speak about the critical aspect of the paycheck act as a relates to businesses particularly in the newspaper and broadcasting business. It is so important to us to address this issue because these are the people who are on the frontlines and bringing the information to us about this crisis. Unfortunately in the past legislation, we did not include associations of broadcasters and newspapers under the definition. So up to several thousand newspapers and hundreds of local radio and television across the country are without existing programs by the Small Business affiliation rule to assist these companies and keeping Important News print and broadcasting staff at their jobs. What i think about what i have learned about the coronavirus from these individuals, what i have learned about the broadcast information of