[cheering] this occasion reserves unbroken tradition which began with president theodore roosevelt. The great and the new great have addressed this audience. But tonight, we welcome the man who history will record among World Leaders in the hour of our greatest need. [applause] i have in mind the rapid succession of communist aggression and millions of people were involved behind the farreaching iron curtain. I have in mind the stalemate of fertility in korea, the rampaging inflation in our homelands. Which was eating up the savings, and traveling the enterprise economy. Then is the man, will be acclaimed by future generations as the man who laid the foundations of peace. [applause] [applause] and more, he is our president only love with a deep and abiding affection. [applause] s direct welcome too the commonwealth quoth im george amateur of the humanities for much put together todays program. Along with the staff at the Commonwealth Club. The text aphis help helped to put together the
Cspan2. Hello, everyone and welcome to the commonwealth program. Im going to be your moderator for today. Im so excited to do this. I have a few things before we announce our wonderful sunny hostin. As we continue to host Virtual Events they are grateful for your support with the members and other members, so we hope you will also consider making a donation. You can do it online or you can text 415 3294231. You can text the word donate to that number. Id also like to thank the Bernard Foundation for supporting todays event. I like the name of that event. My overwhelming, deeply i cant even tell you how much i love this woman but it is my pleasure to welcome my friend sunny hostin, Emmy Awardwinning legal journalist and cohost of the view. I worked with her for many years and we talked about so much like sisters and brothers we fight but its all love. Her new book is called i am the truth a memoir of identity and justice between worlds. Its a revealing look at her incredible story. She
Alignment problem. Those theoretical contributions the bestselling book the most human human and his new book if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence what happens when ai itself becomes the problem with those implications and then from his 2011 book with the alignment problems it is the replication of human bias and argues although we train these to make decisions for us will be discussing a lot in the next hour and please put your questions and the text chat today thank you brian and welcome and thank you for joining us. This is not your first book. The obvious question why did you decide to tackle this topic now . Great question. The initial the for the book and as you mentioned vanity fair reported elon musk with the reading and i found myself in 2014 attending a Silicon Valley book talk with a bunch of investors and seeing the thing about elon musk reading the book of the invited him and to my surprise he came. There was a fascinating moment at the end of the dinner when
The Commonwealth Club of california. I am john zipperer, Vice President of media and editorial and a moderator for this program. We would like to thank our members, donors and supporters for making this and all of our programs possible. We are grateful for their support and we welcome others joined them and supporting the club drink these uncertain times. I am please be joined by brian christian, government author of the new book the alignment problem Machine Learning and human values. His best offer to first get a contribution to the Tech Industry and document in his best bestselling book the most human human and algorithms to live by. In his new book he poses questions such as every content neutral on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself becomes a problem . With degrees in philosophy, Computer Science and poetry, christian has spent his career tackling the ethical advancing society and become more reliant on technology. His work is got the attent
The jealous and emancipated. John brown, Abraham Lincoln and struggle for american freedom. Purchased the book likely from a cappella books, there is a link in the chat at the right of your green go to the link provided on the website. Please submit your questions at the bottom of your screen. Use the q and a, it tends to be less credit that way. I will get to as many of them as i possibly can. Chair of history of the university of texas at boston, hes authored 30 books on u. S. History, the moment First Americans and biographies with both finalists. Thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Delighted to be back. Abraham lincoln and john brown, well covered by historians. What did you want to add to the understanding of these famous american martyrs writing about them together . I think teaching American History with 35, going on 40 years, some of the biggest questions of history are essentially questions to get down to almost moral questions. As a moral question at work here that