We are using this time to reach out to our senior phallus, friends and constituents to talk about the important issues and ethics in public life that are at the heart of the councils work. So thank you all for joining us. Todays topic is democracy on the verge, leadership in times of crisis. This title is a play on the title of the new book, lincoln on the verge, 13 days to washington, written by our good friend and carnegie fellow ted widmer. Great to see you ted. Thank you its good to be here. Im going to let ted described the book i will set the outset it is really a thriller. The book is cinematic, its philosophical, it is a great story. And for me it is inspirational. Like all of teds work, lincoln on the verge, uses the path to enlightenment future and suggest a better future. This is not a bad formula for an entrant understanding the intersection of ethics and Public Policy for this and many other reasons im grateful to ted for his own leadership in our field. In addition to his
Own work when the subject of algorithmic fairness for privacy is not frontpage news. Today we are going to speak to the two leading lights in area they will help us understand what the state of the art is that what the state of the art will be going forward. With that i think we will welcome professor Michael Kearns first to the stage. Is that right . Great. Michael and erin, welcome to the stage. [applause] ok, good morning. Thanks to everyone for coming. My name is Michael Kearns and with my close friend and colleague aaron roth we have coauthored a book, a general artist book called the ethical algorithm whose who subtitle e site of socially aware outcome design. We want to do for roughly half an hour so is just take you a high level to what some of the major themes of the book are and then well open it up as jeff said to q a. I think many, many people and certainly this audience is well aware that in the past decade or so wishing learning has gone from a relatively obscure corner o
Capitulation. I think investors are trying to figure out when does it come. How do you know . Abigail you feel the panic and fear. Highyield is selling off , credit selling off. We are seeing the haven bid. The other thing you would want is that capitulation bottom. Technically, we are nowhere close to the bottom, so we could see days and weeks of this kind of relentless selling, very reminiscent of 2008. Take a look at the Energy Sector, down more than 15 , its worst day ever going all the way back. That is the degree of the fear, the uncertainty and the selling of an on today. David you are a technical person. Give me an example of resistance on the s p. Abigail we are looking more at support, which means we want to see where the buyers are stepping up. You want to go to a weekly chart on todays open. We are well through the 100 week moving average, which means we will probably find support down. If we are lucky, that is at 2640 , but i would make a case for 3300. When you have bonds
Talk about their book the ethical algorithm. I think a day does not go by in the news or otherwise or in our own work when the subject of algorithmic fairness or privacy is not frontpage news. Today were going to speak to the two leading lights in that area and theyre going to help us understand whatthe stateoftheart is now and what the stateoftheart will be going forward. With that, i think we will welcome Michael Kearns first to the stage. Michael kearns andaaron roth, welcome to the stage. [applause] good morning, thanks to everyone for coming. My name is Michael Kearns and with my close friend and colleague erin roth we have coauthored a book, a general audience book called the ethical algorithm subtitle is the science of socially aware algorithm design. So we want to do for roughly half an hour or so is take you at a high level through what some of the major themes of the book are and then we will open it up as jeff said to q a. So i think many, many people and certainly this audi
So we can get your questions recorded as well as our authors answers. Lastly, at the end, if you could take a moment, fold up your chairs, lean them against something solid, that will give you more space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling, all of that good stuff. Welcome to politics and prose. My name is abby fennewald. I run all of our events in the story. If you are not familiar with p p, i would definitely invite you to take a moment and sign up for our weekly email or pick up our may calendar of events, see Everything Else we have going on. We are now operating inside three busboys and poets locations around town, and we are going to be doing events in all those spaces as well, so we are doing more than ever. I would hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, onto why you are all here. We are so happy to have eric burns back with us i think we said you have been here four times before to talk about his new book, 1920 the year that made the decade roar.