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U. S. Senate while the chamber continues debate on an economic a package, negotiations are ongoing but it is possible senators could vote as early as monday on the deal. Live to the senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal lord, you are worthy of our praise. Save us from the forces that threaten our nation and world. Lord, inspire our lawmakers even though the earth seems to tremble and the mountains seem to shake. May our senators always embrace your divine principles and live blameless lives. Give them the wisdom to labor with integrity and to seek your divine approval. Illuminate the darkness that inevitably comes and lead them to your desired destination. Empower us all almighty god, with a faith that will keep us surefooted even in slippery places. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegianc
Bless each and every one of us. It. It been so interesting talking to our tennesseans and as they have faced the issues that we have with coronavirus. What is happening, and the mother response to it in how we are going to fight, were going to win this war. We are going to defeat this. We have to look at it as hard health and food and Financial Assistance and a couple of my tennesseans last night, as we were talking and discussing this, whether thoughts of their questions to me went to is the relationship that we have with china. And how can we trust that we know what china new, that we know when they knew it and their lack of transparency around what is happened with covid19. As weve gotten a couple of months past the start of this, really these questions are unanswered. And how do we tell our tennesseans on the phone last night, even as this virus it came out of wuhan china, they had in december and it has now touched Six Continents and we know that people dealing with containment, t
A couple of my tennesseans last night as we were talking and discussing this, what their thoughts and their questions to me went to is the relationship that we have with china, and how can we trust that we know what china knew, that we know when they knew it, and their lack of transparency around what happened with covid19. Now as weve gotten a couple of months past the start of this, really these questions are unanswered. And as i was telling our tennesseans on the phone last night, even as this virus that came out of wuhan, china, they had it in december, it has now touched six continents, and we know that people are dealing with containment, theyre dealing with mitigation, theyre dealing with having, going through the process of getting the antivirals, getting the vaccines that are necessary to deal with covid19. And the questions that people have around this are compounded by the growing realization of how china has chosen not to be honest and not to be transparent in their dealing
Where the subject of algorithmic fairness or privacy is not frontpage news today we will speak to the two leading lights in that area they will help us understand the state of the art is now and Going Forward with that we will welcome professor kearns first to the stage. Welcome to the stage. [applause] good morning thank you for coming my name is Michael Kearns with my close friend and colleague writing a general audience book called the ethical algorithm so for roughly half an hour we want to take you had a high level to the major themes of the book then we will open to q a. So many people and certainly this audience is aware in the past decade Machine Learning has gone from relatively obscure to mainstream news to characterize the first half of this decade is the glory. When all reports were positive with all these amazing advances like deep learning and speech recognition image categorization in many other areas we all enjoy the great benefits of this technology and the advances ma