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People are respecting our country again. We brought back more than 300 billion of deals which could reach well over a trillion dollars within a very near future. That means jobs for the United States at a very high level. As you know, we have just come up with the best Job Performance in over 17 years. This is a lot more jobs. We think the number will get a lot better. We can also put a lot of people that have not been able to find jobs, put them back to work because they are not registered now. They will be registered in a positive sense. Japanese Car Companies will open up and expanding plants in our country. We worked very closely with Prime Minister abe on that and that have not been able to find jobs, put them back to work we are renegotiating our bad trade deal with south korea and talking about bilateral trade with many countries in asia and made clear to all countries we cannot continue to be treated unfairly with trade. It is not fair to our companies or workers. Last year we
Create a future with ai that is positive for humans and machines. We are fortunate these conversations are happening more and two of the president fought leaders driving these conversations our special guests tonight. We will hear from the director of the mit initiative on the Digital Economy, Erik Brynjolfsson, and author of two bestselling books. The second machine age and machine platform crowd harnessing the future. Next we will hear from max tegmark of the Life Institute and author of the new book just coming out, life 3. 0 being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence. And i understand it is in its second week on the New York Times bestseller list. The two gentlemen have a conversation together and time for questions with the audience before we conclude with a reception and a book signing. With further a do, join me in giving a warm welcome to Erik Brynjolfsson and max tegmark. [applause] i am so delighted to be here, a pleasure to have a chance to share the research we have
Your priority list, first taxi from right after that education and what you meant by that is developing the skills and skills training to make sure that your workforce you need for the next decade, finding people to bring into your companies that can execute the type of work you need that any new technological world. So how does the white house plan to address your concerns . The executive editor of the wall street journal is going to interview betsy devos, the u. S. Secretary of education who is very much focused on this particular aspect of your agenda. So please join me in welcoming them. [applause] secretary, good to see you. Good to see you, matt. I think its fair to say first of all that education for this audience over the years is probably always been one concern for many people whenever we pull our executives. I know there came interested always in the state of education. We both had a lot of talk over the last day and a half on things like ai, things like the digitization of