In his new book christian says if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems what happens when ai itself becomes a problem . Computer science and poetry tackling the ethical and technological. His work has caught the attention of people like elon musk who said his book the human human was his night table reading. It questions whether its a replication of an epitope vias and how can we get a handle on technology before you lose control . He argues although with trained these decisions force eventually humans will need humans. Well be discussing a lot in the next hour and i want to ask your questions but if youre watching live with us please put your questions in the text chat on youtube so i can into end of the conversation today at the thank you brian welcome in thank you for joining us. Its why pleasure. Thank you for having me. This is not your first book of course could i want to ask the opening question and its not the type of question you ask an author bu
Welcome. We are virtual at the book shop. Its good to be here. To our audience. We want to let them know. For those o you have that have not got connors book. I dont think w have ever talked about getting some signed book rights. Welcome everybody. I will introduc maries. And he was born and raised in new orleans. He published his debut novel we cast a shadow in 2019 and it w a finalist for the pen open book awards. The first novel of prize. An asstant professor of creative writing and he is also the 20202021 writer and resident. With the university of mississippi. Welcome back to the Garden District bookshop. It is my honor to introduce our author today. Here is connor town oneil. Connor towne oneill. He works as a producer on the npr podcast. He now lives in tuscan alabama. Congratulations connor. We cant wait to hear more about it. For this portion i know you are interested in reading some of the work that are gathered here today. I will just sit here at the outset. Deftly get your
Of freedom and democracy in American Foreign policy will feature general hr mcmasters who served in the military for 34 years and held the position of the 20 sixth assistant to the president for National Security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. He will talk about his new book battlegrounds the fight to defend the free world, with doctor michael crow, the sixteenth president of Arizona State university. Mccain Institute Trustee and a dear friend of the family. We are honored to host mcmaster for what is an important and timely discussion on us foreign policy. You can begin. Glad to see everybody here. What i want to do first is say the book is a fantastic piece of work, got many little tags on it. I want to spend some time relative to a set of core ideas you put out in this book some that are fantastic in the sense that they are concepts we should be using in the articulation of our thinking about foreignpolicy and National Defense policy and so for
Security and a foreign law grad. Well be talking to him about his book. Rosenberg reporting in the u. S. And the day it opened january 11, 2002. Starting with miami and before that, reported from middle east and moved recently to the new york times. Shes one of many awards including Robert F Kennedy and part of the miami team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Let me tell me you the format. They will talk and then i will come back on and i will pose questions to the audience. If you have questions, feel free to put them in the chat or if you prefer the q and a and i will get to as many as i can. Without further ado. Take away. Think it much, thank you much. Ill talk about the book quickly. The story thats told, america gets this sucker punch pearl harbor in 1941. The pearl harbor attack galvanize and demoralize americans, they were angry, probably scared. Four months later, the wealthy pilots of the center of the story, the raiders, they dropped bombs on the military target and most
Even though we may not get that in our lifetime, even if experienced hardships and disappointments along the way, at least still have faith we can create a more Perfect Union. Not a Perfect Union but more perfect. Good morning and welcome to a special edition of Washington Post live. I am hoping columnist for the Washington Post and founding director of this project and for this special conversation this morning, i am joined by my dear friend, elizabeth alexander. President of the andrew w foundation. Good morning. Good morning. Its wonderful to be together. It is wonderful to be together. We both welcome our guest for this conversation. Fortyfourth president of the united states, barack obama. I assume you recognize that guy in the middle there. Good morning. Washington post put up good guns for this one. We are a so excited to see you. I am very grateful you guys took the time. We are so excited to talk to you about your book but this is a News Organization so we do have to begin wit