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-- we have seen it in the last election. the ability to collect data which tells you how people are leaning in terms of their votes, what they might be influenced by, how you could suppress their vote, how you could encourage their vote. obviously this is done with retail customers all the time in terms of what choices are provided to them in terms of what they buy and sell. i could think of ways you could manipulate the stock market by putting fake news in front of people that causes a stock to...

Of a technology company to do. so i want to start by having you personally how you got to this point of understanding it, and tell me about your mother, who was not a technology person, not an engineer, not even an economist like your dad was, but she was a scholar of sanskrit and had a very different outlook on life than one thinks of when one thinks of the indian driving achievement-oriented parent. >> i have learned the power of empathy. it is not some innate capability that i had, but it is ...

Decade, at least in the developed world, we more or less achieved that objective. and then, you know, we said, oh, what next? so thats when i said, okay, we of got to go back and have a sense of purpose and mission as a company, because in order for us -- we cant be looking with envy to what the competitor is doing for inspiration. we have to truly say what is it that microsoft can uniquely contribute in a competitive marketplace? and so i went all the way back to the first product of the compan...

Victims and survivors in 2016. thats up 29% from 2015. there are 26 bills up for consideration in congress end intended to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the u.s. many are bipartisan. mostly the legal loopholes or put checks on the use of technology. i want to draw your attention to another tactic, perhaps a better one. it was highlighted in a little-noticed $586 million settlement western union made with the u.s. government back in january. western union admitted it was engage...

With ai. while being very clear eyed about all the applications and whether its automation that leads to job displacement and cyber threats. these are all going to require not only companies like ours doing their best work and taking a principal stance in terms of how we design things and ultimately even governments and the legislative process looking at how do we make sure that with the unintended consequences of connectioninolo technology. >> with the super computing, all of these extraordinar...

And philosopher. and gideon rose is the editor of foreign affairs. turn cias lead analyst on korea. you told me you thought the threat in the short term is not great from north korea but there is a longer-term danger. what is it? >> the longer-term danger is once north korea goes nuclear and has the ability to attack anywhere in the united states with a nuclear-tipped-intercontinental ballistic missile and we have to live with a nuclear north korea, were looking at a host of problems, nuclear pr...