Brought to you by your television provider. Welcome to todays virtual program, from the Commonwealth Club of california. Im the clubs Vice President of media and your moderator for today. Wed like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. Were of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. Today im pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, Machine Learning. Which was released last week. He discusses theoretical contributions documented in his bestselling book the most human humans and an outer of them to live by. Christians posing questions of if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself is the problem. Hes a professor of philosophy and poetry, tackling the ethical and technological implications of a advanced society becomes more relianton technology. His work intersects elon musk in h
Looking at chinese data coming out confirming the momentum of the return. We have pmi data. Is a look at the benchmarks we are looking at. Some of the foreign exchanges and commodities. Climb. Ing a massive up 3. 4 . The dollar index is moving up. We have seen this drop alongside the oil prices as well. The dollar is one of those in the crosshairs. Gold is steady. Lets get to new york and have a look at some of the first word news headlines, here is karina mitchell. Coronavirus cases are leading to more lockdowns. Germany, and the u. K. Already increasing but controls. Than. S. Reported more 78,000 new cases over the week and after two Straight Days of National Records. Anger is rising across europe as governments impose new lockdown rules. Officials blocks travel from local regions. There is still no national clampdown. The u. K. Will go into lockdown again later this week while extending wage support for four load furloughed workers. South koreas export led recovery continued last mo
As opinion well poll terrorism but we also want the right. To give these countries a. Previous time a completely different view thats how they want to be. Watching our to international bring your live news update this hour welcome to the program. Donald trumps advisor uncovered 1000 has apologized for giving an interview to r. T. After a wave of criticism from Mainstream Media outlets speaking on going underground scott atlas slammed the use of lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus the lockdowns has been one of the one of them will go down as an epic failure. By people who refuse to accept they were wrong were wrong words used stuff they were wrong you know the. They didnt care and became a frenzy of stopping calling 980 says at all costs and those costs are massive and whats happened here is that the argument is undeniable the lockdowns are killing people this is a very controversial fellow his views are controversial he has a lot of power has a lot of enemies in the United Sta
70,000 for the First Time Since july. In europe, it is dark. France, italy, along with other countries seeing daily records. Today we focused on what this means to your money. There might still be time to find a potential haven. Wholee are going to get a slew of Economic Data next week. The covid numbers, how is that going to affect the future recovery . Joe we had a second wave in the summer if you want to call it that in sun belt states. We are seeing this third wave really hitting the midwest hard. The economy has recovered even as covid has picked up. Clearly this has a dampening effect on activity. The longer this goes on, the worse it gets, not good. Numbers continue to surge in the u. S. Europe looking very bad. Than inf cases higher the spring. This is very much still with us. Romaine and those pmi surveys out of europe provided some potential taste of what is to come for the rest of the world. We saw manufacturing in those pmi surveys. Line going is services. That is the conce
[indiscernible] [indiscernible] i am here. Great. Okay. As always, i would ask the presenters to give themselves on mute until you are allowed to speak. Members of the public, please do the same. Make sure any background noise is muted. The number to call in for Public Comment is for 156150001. Access code 1464888598. We will have two minutes for Public Comment. If you could please call the first one in. Line item one. Consent calendar. Receive and take action. Motion to accept. So moved. I will second, sorry. [laughter] called the vote. The motion to accept the donation from did we take Public Comment on that first . Im sorry. We will, yes, after the items okay. How do you vote . Yes. [roll call] you have five yes. Next is the Police Commission report for the report of 2020. I need a motion and a second. [indiscernible] i wanted to ask a question on that. Is that the one where they are resigning or quitting for septembers report that we read . Is that the same report . [indiscernible]