Threats Artificial Intelligence may pose to humans and what can be done to protect us. [inaudible conversations] all right. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for coming to the beautiful faculty class here at ucberkeley for this event today. Were really excited for the discussion. The event is being filmed by cspan to be broadcast at a later date, so well make that available to you as soon as we have it. This event is cohosted by the a. I. Security initiative which is housed at the center for longterm cybersecurity and by the sector for human compatible a. I. , a new hub for Interdisciplinary Research on Global Security and politics of Artificial Intelligence. We are work to understand the effects of misuse and unintended consequences, how a. I. Is changing global power dynamicses and what governance molds are meaningful to models are meaningful. Our work is oriented with a view over the horizon, and our goal is to help Decision Makers identify the steps they can take today that will have
Magic and we are excited to have casey cep in celebration of dirks the last trial of harper lee. This is her first book but casey this not her first thing she has given to us write. She has been writing for the the new yorker, the new yorkw york times for many years now, and many of you probably noticed because youre but in all of work she has this super home able to make every detail fascinating and crystal clear. In this one casey works to layout two intertwine can mysteries, one in the story of reverend Willy Maxwell and his trials and the other in the unissued work of a beloved literary market and she has contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as much justice as possible. Trust me, and also every person i think who works in this book store in this room, this is a book that you actually cannot put down and i mean it seriously. Im about 20 pages from the end and very sad im not reading it. Casey, we are so excited to have you tonight. Thank you so much for coming
With casey cep. She tells the story of author harper lees attempt to write a true crime book. [inaudible conversations] hello, everybody. Can you hear me okay . My name is r are ebek ah, tonight we are on excited to have casey cep [cheers and applause] furious hours, this is a book that katie sorry, casey. [laughter] this is not the first thing that casey has given us to write. Casey has been writing for the new yorker, the New York Times, many, many others for many years now, and many of you probably noticed because youre here, but in all of her work she has this superhuman ability to make everything she touches fascinating and crystal clear, and this could not be more true for this book. In this one, casey works to lay out two intertwining mysteries. One is the story of reverend Willie Maxwell and his trial, and the other is the unfinished work of a beloved literary character, and she recounts both stories with contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as much justi
the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he is going to purchase parlor. do you know what por lor is? the word might invoke the image of a fancy room or cute little lady sit and sip their tea from good china. but parlor is decidedly not that. parlor is a far right fringe social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capitol insurrection, january 6, 2021, because many of the violent rioters organized on parlor. podcast host kara swisher that very day asked one of the founders of parlor if he felt any responsibility for death and destruction to which he said this. i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform, considering we re a neutral town square that just add head heres to the law. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset and they felt disenfranchised. not long after that interview, apple and
Where the former chief of staff to the Top Republican of the senate, Mitch Mcconnell, his former chief of staff is issuing threats to President Trump that if he doesnt back off to do what hes doing to attack other republicans, he may find himself facing impeachment in the senate sooner rather than later. Unnamed republican sources are making serious allegations to the New York Times tonight that beyond the allegations already being investigated, that the president may have pressured the fbi to drop its russian investigation, beyond its existing investigation into whether or not the president obstructed justice when he fired the fbi director to try to stop the russia investigation, unnamed republican sources are telling the New York Times tonight that the president may also have tried to block the investigation into the russia matt are thats being conducted in the United States senate by the investigating committees in the United States senate. In fact, these allegations tonight from th