Hello and welcome to tonight commonwealth program. Im a Technology Reporter with washington post. Please to be the moderator for tonights program on critical topic. The historical importance of the transformation from on by Artificial Intelligence and virtual environments. As we have seen so acutely the past three months, the covid19 pandemic and social media and the killing of george floyd in minneapolis in the aftermath. Technology in online environments guide every aspect of our lives. Tonight i am pleased to be joined by silicone valley pioneers to discuss these issues further. William davidow and michael malone. Their new book, the autonmous revolution, reclaiming the future to be sold to machines. They dove deeply into the revolution there are living through regarding ai virtual environment. The book could be purchased everywhere including cn. Com. A little bit about tonights features. The cofounder of the capital. Earlier in his career he worked at intel rated and is credited as
Hello and welcome to tonights virtual Commonwealth Club program. My name is read and im a Technology Reporter with the Washington Post and im pleased to be the moderator for tonights program, the historical importance of the transformation brought on by Artificial Intelligence and virtual environment. As we have seen over the last three months with the covid19 pandemic and with social media with the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and the aftermath , technology and online environments that every aspects of our life here tonight i am pleased it to be joined by two Silicon Valley pioneers to discuss these issues. William davidow and Michael Malone, their new book, the autonomous revolution reclaiming the future of the machines is out now and delves deeply into the revolution we are living through regarding a i and virtual environment and it can be purchased everywhere including bn. Com. A bit about tonight speakers, bill david, the cofounder of the earlier in his career he worked
Late january, early february when the virus was raging in china. Investors and traders in the u. S. , and we have spikes in certain parts of the u. S. It is not clear what that will bring for the rest of the country. Traders looking past any negative possibility. However, from across asset class standpoint, that is not the case. The haven yen is a quite a rally over the last two weeks, more than two weeks, the haven yen up more than 3 , quite a run when you have investors seeking safety in that way. It tells you they are treading water where there is an actual hedge for some sort of risk off ahead. Itll be interesting to see whether the broader indexes, the sideways range we have seen of last couple of weeks, whether it breaks to the upside following the nasdaq or the nasdaq follows stocks down. There seems to be overall optimism driven by the fed. Not a lot changing fundamentally accept the virus data and the uncertain the around that. David dont fight the fed. Thank you so much abiga
To have change our way of life is anyways. Is this is our shuttered and millions of americans are teleworking for the first time. Churches and schools are closed. Healthcare workers are working around the clock and just in the last five weeks race on the numbers i sawks this might look like nearly 30 million americans filed for unemployment. Most believe were already approaching the highest percentage of unemployed since the greatye depression. Now more than ever americans need to know that their leaders are working for them, and that they have voices as work to navigate in this pandemic. In a world where its no longer safe to be within six feet of each other, congress has to learn to adapt. Now the first time weve need to ensure the continuity of congress. For example, with the Nuclear Threat during the cold war, u. S. Government constructed a large bunkerrn for congress so we woud be required to meet outside of washington. Area where there is not a physical meeting location at risk,
We just have taken whatever fever dream of a Technology People had in the 1960s and said right, were going to take that in our current pocket. Its never how technological change works. Very often its how we think about it. As we see our lives the way we behave, the way we interact with people at political institutions,our organizations , the office, we see that and we imagine what technology does is it just drops in and it replaces one little bit of what we do and nothing else changes. This is similar to theblade runner problem we have. You have artificial humans and yet people are still making calls from payphones. So we always or almost always adapt to take advantage of the new technology and the adaptation process is not always pleasant but it always happens. Its usually necessary and we prove to be very adaptable and contorting ourselves to make the Technology Work for us or being contorted because you work for an organization, you have to do what the boss of the Organization Says