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
Brought to you by your television provider. Welcome to todays virtual program, from the Commonwealth Club of california. Im the clubs Vice President of media and your moderator for today. Wed like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. Were of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. Today im pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, Machine Learning. Which was released last week. He discusses theoretical contributions documented in his bestselling book the most human humans and an outer of them to live by. Christians posing questions of if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself is the problem. Hes a professor of philosophy and poetry, tackling the ethical and technological implications of a advanced society becomes more relianton technology. His work intersects elon musk in h
Years of the early work on u. S. Terror. From politics, policy and leadership. My husband, john mccain, fought his whole life to promote american characterdriven leadership and democracy to the public, and its incredibly important today to carry that legacy forward by any means possible. Todays installment, the roles of freedom and democracy in American Foreign policy, will feature general. R. Mcmaster who served in the military for 34 years, and held the position of the 26th 26th assistant to at the president for National Security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. He will be talking about his new pock, battlegrounds, the fight to defend the free world. With dr. Michael crowe, the president of Arizona State university, Mccain Institute trustee and a dear friend to my family. Were honored to host a pair of thoughtfully general mcmaster and professor crowe on what will be a timely discussion on u. S. Foreign policy. Go ahead and begin. Great. Glad to s
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