On the Artificial Intelligence conference here in washington d. C. They discuss how best to create an Artificial Intelligence work for a second address the defense means of the u. S. applause what good afternoon everyone, so as we settle and i often pick a word for the day, it kind of governs how i conduct myself oftentimes and just my frame of mind, but today im gonna pick and imagine if you look at your screen one of our commissioners shared with me, shared with me this image and i think it really sets the tone in this stage and underscores the importance of why we are here and of course the significance of this panel, now this is a chinese book for kindergartners peace and circle even if you dont speak chinese, circle are two letters they, kindergarten saying i spoke i, think the senator talked about tooling ourselves and getting ready for grade school to a grad school, now are talking about kindergarten or even prek if are going to keep ahead and really stay number one when it come
To the hospital, we abandoned our symptom, and we behaved the way we usually behave. The question was, would anyone detect we were sane . The answer was, no. Your new book, the great pretender, centers around the story of this man. Who is he . Susannah he is a stanford professor named David Rosenhan. He was the architect of this amazing study. Footage youredible played. It is called on being sane in insane places. He and seven other people went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country. Their mission was to test the nature of diagnosis to see if their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a personal place. I emerged from my book, my memoir, brain on fire, which chronicled my experience with an autoimmune disease that can look that chronicled my brain. It was briefly misdiagnosed as a mental disorder. After that book came out, i was inundated by emails from the g
applause what good afternoon everyone, so as we settle and i often pick a word for the day, it kind of governs how i conduct myself oftentimes and just my frame of mind, but today im gonna pick and imagine if you look at your screen one of our commissioners shared with me, shared with me this image and i think it really sets the tone in this stage and underscores the importance of why we are here and of course the significance of this panel, now this is a chinese book for kindergartners peace and circle even if you dont speak chinese, circle are two letters they, kindergarten saying i spoke i, think the senator talked about tooling ourselves and getting ready for grade school to a grad school, now are talking about kindergarten or even prek if are going to keep ahead and really stay number one when it comes to ai so i just wanted to start with this image because again for me and underscores the urgency of why this commission was formed and why you think and no its so and fit aboard and
My name is Leslie Leslie kavasch im here to introduce our guest, cyde ford, a former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from the university of western states in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and the era pissed. Hes also the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clyde is the recipient of the richard ray award, in africanamerican literature. He has been a guest on the oprah show, in pr, radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here to speak about his latest book, think black a memoir of sacrifice, which was just released, shortlisted for the book prize in social justice. Please join me in welcoming to the kendall planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry, cyde ford. [applause] thank you all for being here, i cant tell you how special it is to be here. I was just reliving my First Experience over 40 years ago up at Washington Park and i was a volunteer. I was working with a group, i had come from ibm to go to chiropractic college.
Do question was, would anyone detect that we were sane . The answer was no. Your new book centers around the stores of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just inyed, called on being sane insane places. He went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the ifure of diagnosis and see their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. Had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Book came out, i was inundated by emails from the general public, a lot of people who were looking for answers, some of whom actually found answers because of my book, but i also received many emails from people who felt lost within the Mental Health system, who felt they were not b