Our annual poll bring me more hope and renewed sense of pride for our city and our residents. We saw two trends that i really want to share with you. This morning. One being that san franciscans are showing new signs of optimism and our city no doubt faces serious challenges from the pandemic, Public Safety concerns and negative media. But despite all that, we saw a slight increase in the voters who think that the current Economic Conditions are better than a year ago. This is a very important. Thats right. And not only that, san franciscans are more optimistic about the state of our city, but they are ready to take action. Well dive into the poll results later. A bit later on. But one thing is clear San Francisco voters are supportive of taking action at the ballot for a change in our city, especially when it comes to making it easier to do business and increasing Public Safety. Im confident that 2024 will be a year that lays the foundation for a stronger, more inclusive and even more
Welcome to the montgomery Federalist Society luncheon. Im allen mendenhall, dean of the Royal College of business at troy, executive director of the manual Johnson Center for political economy and president of our local montgomery chapter here, the federal society seeks to sponsor fair, serious and open debate about the need to enhance individual freedom and the role of the courts. In saying what the law is rather than it ought to be. The underlying irony behind the aptly named edmund burke foundation, which was founded in 2019 to fund the National Conservative movement, spearheaded by yoram mazzoni. Is that burke widely considered the father of modern conservative political, championed economic liberalism. He was johnson and joshua reynolds, the Literary Club in london that included none other than adam smith among its prestigious members. Burke was smiths friend and favorably reviewed theory of moral sentiments in the wealth of nations. His speech on conciliation america and speech o
Forum also focused on the risks and benefits of Artificial Intelligence as the technology continues to rapidly change. The conversation included representatives from google and the white house, outlining the u. S. Role in the development and regulation of the technology and global competition in the field. This is about 50 minutes. This is about 50 minutes. We are almost at the finish line so thank you for sticking with us. By the end of this 40 minutes, we hope that you will leave the session feeling smarter about the real risks and real risks and opportunities related to ai. I frame it in those terms because for the last six months we had a very exciting ai debate. Dominated by extreme voices around extreme fears or frankly unrealistic utopian visions about what ai can do for us and there is really important middle in between. Those are the nuts and bolts i would like us all to dive into. If there is anyone who feels they have not been keeping up to speed in the debate, do not worry,
Regulators spoke to allow his company to commercialize their attack in San Francisco. A government probe into malicious attacks on Cloud Computing including microsoft roles in a chinese hacking of government officials. We have the details in the aviation sector will pass a 5 trillion bill to fight decarbonization. San franciscans get ready, you are about to see even more robotech sees on the streets. California regulators voted in favor of waymo and cruz pay Driverless Services. The ruling came after hours of public testimony with citizens arguing for and against the services. They can run full Driverless Services charging fairs day and night here in San Francisco. The ceo joyce me now. Ed how do you operationalize this . It is got in your favor. What happens next . Its been a big year of scaling for us. We ramped up our operations as we see these performances improve on the road. With this permit we can convert that service to a preservice. A signal to california that we will prioriti
Franciscans are showing new signs of optimism and our city no doubt faces serious challenges from the pandemic, Public Safety concerns and negative media. But despite all that, we saw a slight increase in the voters who think that the current Economic Conditions are better than a year ago. This is a very important. Thats right. And not only that, san franciscans are more optimistic about the state of our city, but they are ready to take action. Well dive into the poll results later. A bit later on. But one thing is clear San Francisco voters are supportive of taking action at the ballot for a change in our city, especially when it comes to making it easier to do business and increasing Public Safety. Im confident that 2024 will be a year that lays the foundation for a stronger, more inclusive and even more innovative San Francisco, a foundation that is actually being built by people in this very room here today. And it feels like literally almost every day i get a call from a Member Co