To City Lights Book publishers. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us celebrating a very important book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Samuel woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media, assistant professor of the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Samuel woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute of the future, 50yearold think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley and cofounded and directed the Research Team at the computational propaganda project at Oxford Internet institute at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including wired, the atlantic monthly, tech crunch, the guardia
Woolley with us here tonight celebrating a very, very important new book. Its called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Dr. Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of a. I. , emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media. He is an assistant professor in the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Professor woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. He also directed the Research Team at the computational propaganda project at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including wired, the atlantic monthly, vice, tech crunch, the guardian and many, many others. His research has b
Going. Reporter xaviers cousin said he was like a brother to her 5yearold son. Why . Like, why . He was such a little boy, he doesnt deserve that. Reporter xavier was a kindergarten student in southeast. Its very devastating. Devastating. This tragedy of the young boy that got killed. Reporter what will you tell your children . Be very careful when youre crossing the street. Look both ways. Reporter ahead at 6 00, how the school will help its Young Students deal with death at such an early age, when they return to class tomorrow. Thats the latest from livingston road in southeast, washington. Back to you. Such an awful story. Thank you, chris. And this is an example of why all of us need to be careful about young children, especially as we have warmer weather and longer days. Killed in traffic crashes in 2015, according to the nhtsa, that showed more than 70,000 pedestrians were injured. Among those killed, more than a fifth were children under the age of 14. Leon harris here at the li
As far as being in south florida near the miami area, you listen and you of the cubans would think miami was a one horse town. They did everything, they built everything, and everybody else was sitting eating bonbons. Guest i just want to correct once again. The wet foot dry foot did start with president clinton after a migration crisis in 1994 or 19 the nice six 1996. The gentleman may be reviewed referring to the cuban adjustment act that dealt with the legal status of cubans that came early in the revolution. That legislation was passed in 1966. That is different from an executive policy taken by president clinton in the mid1990s. Host we have one more call. Independents. For caller i want to make sure im clear on this. When you say things that trump stepped back, it is things the cuban government will benefit from, correct . Guest actually, americans can continue going to airbnbs. Americans can go to cuban hotels as long as that hotel is not owned and operated by the cuban military
Smaller and more capable and , soiles are getting smarter the evolution of these two systems are merging together so it is harder to tell one from the other. A missile that gets fired from an airplane that has certain capabilities can fly, loiter over a target, strike exactly when the pilot wants it to, sort of having a next her wing man extra we man launch from your airplane. If a missile is smart enough to do that, is it a drone . It almost does not matter. The end capability of what it can do is what the air force is interested in. That is forcing design and Strategic Decisions on what they want to carry. Host we have a rendering from your article. What is wrong with the current drones the military is using . Guest range. Most of the problems come from range. The air force likes to go into places, even if they are defended by ground launch missiles or other aircraft, and strike targets on the ground. That can be enabled with drones. They are great at spying ahead, looking down at wh