Amount of money that are able to attract the best challenge because of the best food, the have the relationships of the universities, it does not mean that there arent other Companies Like salesforce or ingber are doing amazing things, its through these Nine Companies that Everything Else flows, the entire a. I. Ecosystem in some way or another touches these nine. In addition to the things that i mentioned, they are building the framework and the custom silicone chips, they have the code basis, all roads lead to these Nine Companies and the challenge that i have, if it is the case Artificial Intelligence is not just being built to create a better microwave although that is cool, instead to optimize our lives using data as currency, what does it mean when we relegate that to a handful of companies and a handful of people looking at these companies who probably dont look like us and have the same worldviews as us, what are the longerterm downstream implications of that look like . Three of those companies are in china, there out of fat, ali baba, their publicly traded companies but i lived in china and lived in japan, and anybody who watches china knows that publicly traded companies are still under the sum of beijing, there is no escape, you can be an incredibly if youre an incredibly successful ceo is because youre in lock step in some ways with the chinese government, that matters because we have a brilliant person at the home. , prejesus interne xi jinping. Live a culture of longterm planning, you can go out throughout history and their fiveyear plan and see how a lot of them never amounted to anything but i think things are different this time, they are different because we have a person in power and the Leadership Team around him who really understand technology. So you probably heard of the bells and road initiative, this seems like an infrastructure initiative, your building bridges and roads in exchange for debt diplomacy, all around the world, around the silk road route into deep latin america and africa. But what most people dont realize is that this is not about building physical bridges and physical roads, you think digital component as well, 58 countries are part of the digital side of the bri, theyre getting 5g, chinese 5g, theyre getting Small Cell Technology and theyre getting something called chinas social credit score system. Theres parts in southern china, right now where you might be at intersection and if you j walkway to the legal there, smart cameras placed around the intersection will recognize who you are, you can have your face covered or you could be obscured but these symptoms are very, very smart and they can recognize you by gait, by posture, by how you are walking, if you caused an infraction, your face gets thrown up on a digital billboard at the intersection, along with your name and where you work, the information is transmitted to your employers, and to your family members, if youve done it more than once, you might be told to report to a local police precinct, and you are demoted, your total score is a chinese citizen is taken down a few notches. There opportunities to earn points if you done something good, somebody can report work and then you might get a few points out, and this is a program intended to be national the house not rolled out nationally and you may be saying, thats china, i dont live there, this is very interesting but who cares. Let me tell you why this matters to you. First of all, the system already has prevented 17. 5 Million People from buying airplane tickets, more than 17 Million People last year could not fly, five and a half Million People could not buy a train ticket and 300,000 people who did really great jobs at work, their scores were too low and they were as a result disqualified from sending to management positions. These are not ethnic minority for being discriminated against, this is a shot at huge social control. Again you may say to yourself, listen you had me at talking microwaves, i dont know why all this necessarily matters to me and the reason that it matters is the bri. If its a case that china is aligning itself with all of the countries around the world, many of which are economically vulnerable or their phone number for any other number of reasons because of Climate Change or because of political unrest in their inching toward authoritarian leaders in the social Credit Scores is a good option helps keep the populace in control in china is already exporting this to various different places and why this matters is while were fixated on wars and building big ships and bombs and thinking about missiles in the sky, we have forgotten to look at what happens if china wages an economic war which effectively blocks out of pieces or forces us to come to terms that we dont like or understand. This prevents us from doing business in from traveling, and potentially recent shapes the world in a new world order where china is not just a pacing threat, militaristic economic pacing threat but china becomes a formidable global threat to all of us, that is china. In the United States, there is an antagonistic relationship, theres a transactional relationship on good days but it antagonist relationship were often than not between the rally in d. C. So what winds up happening, there is a lack of understanding, there are not enough relationships, the valley does what it wants until somebody gets upset and then they apologize and then they do the same thing again over and over and over again. Until one day when you have somebody like Elizabeth Warren who starts demanding more from that their broken out, you cannot break up these companies. There are many reasons why some of them have to do a strategy, some have to do with the nuts and bolt of technology, this is not like bell, remember when the bell company got broken up into baby bells, this is not that, this is not telephone. These companies have multiple divisions in intertwined and very complicated and if the United States is going to continue to defund science and if its going to continue to defund our Education System and technology, then who is going to build out the future of a. I. Among other among Everything Else, you can just pick it apart, it does not work that way, in the process of arguing back and forth, in the process these process are competing against each other rather than collaborating, this sets up for inch by inch, little by little, your daily permissions being taken away, i no longer have the ability to back my car into my garage with the radio on full volume, thats because somebody who is part of a small group and a small a. I. Tribe decided that they would optimize my best healthiest life and that i was probably unsafe, like youre probably unsafe although weve never been in a car accident, i no longer have control over the volume in my car, that seems insignificant but theres a compounding effect over time and we are all part of the process that is unfoldin folding and sl, he heard the analogy of the frog in the pop and the water slowly over time boiling and you dont realize until the frog is dead, i dont want to be the dead fr frog. I realize that sounds like hyperbole but theres so many things that are happening that we turned a blind eye to that at some point there is no way to turn this back, there is a singular switch for a. I. And a Single Person that is in charge and at the moment we have no National Leadership on this issue, President Trump issued and signed an executive order but the executive order on Artificial Intelligence is not self executing, we do not have budget or singular department in charge, we do not have Institutional Knowledge spread throughout our federal government, we love smart people but theyre not the right places and in the valley, we have incredibly smart people who i do think want to do good by and for society and who are constantly dealing with market demands. Let me be clear on this, i dont think that the big Nine Companies and certainly not the g mafia which is our part of the big nine, i do not think they are evil. I dont think the intent to do harm, i think weve gotten ourselves into a situation where the system is broken. We broken up our archives about technology, next, reporter anna wiener recalls her experiences working for tech startups. The ceo of the company is a Second Company work for in San Francisco was 24 when i joined the company, i was 25. Obviously we experienced and he had been through why, nader, i think its an incredibly hard thing to do to run a company full of adults, many with dependence or debt or whatever, i do not and the one in that position and so your select for that if youre lucky, but i have a lot of sympathy for someone growing up at the same time their learning how to be a ceo. I think the reason i dont Name Companies and the executives, theres few of them but one that i feel the behavior that i sell institutionally as well as individually was a result of a structural position than any individual failure, i realize thats exculpatory narrative or exculpatory framework. [inaudible] its not to be cory or to offer a puzzle for people to solve [inaudible] more than i wanted to gesture toward what i think is a common leadership style and has more to do with the incentives of the Business Model than the industry and let me illustrate this, i told this antidote at another reading. I feel like im walking onto the readings with my own book like an American Girl doll like here i am, with my book. [laughter] anyways, i think it was in newarks committee came up to me after reading and they read my book and they mention the scene in which i talk about how early members of my team got into a Conference Room in my manager asked us who are the five smartest people that you know, write their names down and we all did this exercise and look at your list, went out they were care. I was like why would they were care, this is something this is a useful thing an interesting thing to do, why would my friend who is in graduate school and make their way to tech, you name them, why would these people who are smart and talented and interested, why should they work at the analytics company, im here because i dont know what my purposes and im trying to figure that out and have health insurance. Its the idea that the five people that you know should work here because it has economic value, anyway,. Is it required yes, i totally do, im sorry. I apologize. Maybe i thought we should have a one line answer. So she came up to me after this event and i was like the same thing happened to my company, actually it was the first time i heard this, another woman that works at a startup interprets as a text to me too say, this was like deja vu for me, i cannot believe this happened, they mustve read on the blog post because i too was pulled into a room to write down the names of the five smartest people that i know at a totally different company, unrelated, ceos are probably not friends. I feel like theres a thing that happens with culture if there is an intellectual culture that has a fashion for itself which i recall interim flexural but theres more about that in the book that has to do more with people giving business advice, theyve never run a company before, the tone of money and accountability to their investors and attentive responsibly to their employees, their train to figure out how to read and they read a blog post and they read heres how you can scale hiring and get people good for your company and corral your employees into a Conference Room and then push them to recruit them as they will pay you 5 8000 per recruit. I tried so hard to recruit people who were not the smartest people that i know. [laughter] anyway, i think that the industry has values, you can speak to this as well, you maybe have seen this in your excellent book of investigation of uber. [laughter] its called super punk by mike eisen, is available at the bookstore. Hell be signing after words. I think the Company Cultures are saved by the Business Model and the business incentives and those are shaped by the incentives of Venture Capital so you have prioritization of speed and scale an acceleration in whatever, coupled with libertarian spirit of the industry that has been incubating if you will for 25 years 40 years i dont know. Or 2020, longer, 50 years, and you kind of get this ultra product that doesnt value expertise, and over consideration and research has this iterative complex, i dont know what im talking about, im so sorry. Im just going for it. I dont remember actually. On cspan. All right there is a lot of securing in the book, im wondering if theres parts of you experiencing some of these things that you take with you that you actually appreciated. Journalists are typically handed a lot of textbooks who think again tech is doing good for the world and sort of a positive thing and even questioning that is a dangerous sometimes, i am wondering if there are parts that you took away from your time . And if you say no its fine. There is. This is the heart of the book is ambivalence. I think there was a lot that i appreciated about working in tech, i dont know my 30s if i would appreciate the same things to be totally honest, i have to be the right age and have the right your means to be an ideal employee in a certain way, in my 20s, and 32. [laughter] , when it mattered. But yeah, in my 20s having moved here not knowing anyone from a different city, trying to find meaning, being told heres your meeting, run with it, i think i admired and appreciated was a moderate in the commitment to a common project, collective project if you will, i like that people had a tenor seemed to have for a little while, i think that is part of the problem, people having autonomy he dont necessarily have the authority to have the autonomy or shouldnt necessarily but there seems to be so much potential even though the people with the most autonomy replicate power structures that exist externally for years but obviously that was exciting to me. There is one more thing that i actually did enjoy and appreciate about starter culture, i think its very earnest that someone who is going between detached mockery in deep painful earnestness, i dont know if you can relate, anyway. They might be wrong but i generally believe people think theyre doing good for the world, i believe that they believe it and they trust him when they say it, i think what is missing i think the problems are systemic i dont think the rooted individual although id be curious what you make of that giving your reporting on uber. I do wonder, i dont even actually know if your legally can answer this question, you can move to the next one if you want to, do you feel like someone, i heard people say uber could not exist if it did not have the crazy culture, my question is should it exist and obviously that culture shouldnt exist and if you dont have that culture, maybe that is fine. [laughter] do you see a structural explanation for his behavior, one that is related to incentives of a Business Model or the industry that could potentially be forgiving of someone like that. I think youre getting at the exact thing, if you boil them how this works, youre getting invested in your company and whether its users or revenue or something, for most companies, we can get kinda desperate and we have to do things that might not be legal and to see how a lot of this works, i also think there is justification, the people who are in their own space come the income net, protected in ways that are not necessarily fair and can believe, im not saying this is wrong, we sense for doing a lot of the stuff and just to go on my back argument, i do think people are in the same structural position when theyre done a ass holes. You have to be a jerk, depending on who the ceos. Youre watching the tv on cspan2 with Author Programs on technology from archive, in september of 2019 microsoft Senior Researcher mary gray reported on the workforce that drives Large Technology like amazon, google and uber. Youre probably familiar with the categories that were caught online and offline Platform Services anything from uber, lift, doordash, the using the same mechanism in the interface putting out a request for somebody to come pick up the food, deliver it to this address and the platform is participating in that exchange by recording if its picked up and delivered executing a payment, scheduling giving an address, that portion of the work is automated, the delivery, the value of somebody doing their to deliver the food, thats the part of the equation we often are considering more were not aware of it if i would say it was a form of the libretto think anybody would know what i was talking about. Now you will know that content moderation is a job that people do and its absolutely providing another service for training Artificial Intelligence and more importantly as an executable loop for performing every important service. We are focused on the vast World Business startup, often businesstobusiness services that are below the surface, anything you will ever see as an in consumer. And thats what were going to talk about today, its the world of editing, its a world of visibility testing, which might be familiar for some of you in the room, many of the different tasks drive Artificial Intelligence innovation, its what help structure a clean dataset and i love being mit because most of you in the room know what im saying when i say that. But importantly increas