[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
Have learned during the crisis to better prepare for pandemic or other biological events of this scale in the future. Folks of todays hearing is the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51,000 appropriation in 1958, the sns was codified in 2002 and obtained its current name with an expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, management responsibility for the sns has changed between different agencies within hhs and dhs. In developing a plan for this committees oversight for the federal governments response to the coronavirus, the role of the Strategic National stockpile was an obvious area of interest, as is the vulnerability of our supply chain and theyre very interrelated. I assume that staff would be able to quickly obtain the list of items that should be held together with required and actual inventory levels of each item. Once again, i learned it is dangerous to assume. We quickly found out that those lists do not exist or certainly are not made available to congre
Hello and welcome to. Involving at a cost make and Artificial Intelligence no longer just a hollywood dream as a path ahead of us a dangerous one will our lives be real while im here in the universities all this questions to one of the most prominent thinkers in this field nick bostrom. Its really great to have you with us a year a philosopher a year author who writes about whats going to happen to us basically possibly. So one of the ideas that you put forward is this idea of vulnerable world yes so correct me if i were wrong but if i get this correctly its its basically that humanity may come up with a technology that may do this to extension and therefore we would need computer surveillance while that might be an oversimplification but the vulnerable world hypothesis. Is the hypothesis that at some level of Technological Development it gets to be said to destroy 6 basic things so that by default one civilization reaches the level of development. Will get that a stated. And there are
Gets to use it to destroy 6 basic things so that by default one civilization reaches the level of development. Will get the stated. There are a couple of different ways in which this could be true one maybe the easiest way to see is. If it just because very easy at some level of Development Even for a small group or individual to cause must destruction so imagine if Nuclear Weapons for example instead of requiring these rare difficult to obtain real materials like plutonium or highly enriched uranium imagine if it had been an easy way to do it like baking sand in the microwave and you could have used the energy of the atom and if that had turned out to be the way things are then maybe at that point civilization would have come to an end then. With surveillance from what i understand you cant really predict the future nothing can mean you can survey people and watch what theyre doing. Then they will be inventing things under surveillance but you want know that it is detrimental until so
Like plutonium or highly enriched uranium imagine if it had been an easy way to do it like baking sand in the microwave and you could have. The energy of the atom and if that had turned out to be the way things are then maybe at that point civilization would have come to an end then. With surveillance from what i understand you cant really predict the future nothing can when you can survey people and watch what theyre doing but then they will be inventing things under surveillance but you want know that it is detrimental until something has gone wrong that that the fact of surveillance wouldnt really prevent well so if. Things start the world at some level of technology is vulnerable in this sense one can then obviously wants to ask well what could we possibly do in that situation to prevent the world from actually getting destroyed and it does look like insurgents in our else. Youd be. Good to surveillance would be the only thing that could possibly prevent that. Now would even that w