Coronavirus without objection. The chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Today, the committee is meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are justifiably concerned about the virus which has spread around the world and claimed the lives of thousands. Understandably, they have questions about how it may affect them, their loved ones and their communities. How concerned do we need to be about the virus . Who is most at risk . What can communities do to compare prepare . What can americans do to protect themselves and their families . What is the federal government doing . What more should it be doing . My constituents are looking to the federal government for leadership, guidance and expertise. I shea i am sure my colleagues constituents are as well. I am concerned that the Trump Administration has downplayed the threat and overstated how close scientists are to developing a vaccine
Officials are asked about the federal governments response to the spread of coronavirus. We will hear from the director at this security meeting. The committee will come to order. The committee is meeting to receive testimony about confronting the coronavirus. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Today the committees meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are justifiably concerned about the virus, which has spread around the world and claimed the lives of thousands. Understandably, they have questions about how it might affect them, their loved ones and communities. How concerned do we need to be about the virus . Who is most at risk . What can communities do to prepare . What can americans do to protect themselves and their families . What is the federal government doing . What more should it be doing . When might we have a vaccine or other treatment .
Review the latest events anytime at cspan. Org coronavirus. The u. S. Chief Technology Officer talked about Artificial Intelligence and competition from china. Hosted by the hudson institute, this is about 50 minutes. Okay. Well, welcome, everyone, to our meeting on ai and advances in Quantum Information Sciences or quantum computing, et cetera. Im pleased to have an opportunity to welcome michael, who has a thoroughly intimidating title of the chief Technology Officer of the United States. So its i think weve come to the right place to engage this this important subject. As as you know, the the administration has taken a very energetic position in trying to advance the stateoftheart and above the applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Quantum Information Sciences to our nondefense applications. Theres there is parallel efforts of substantial scale in the department of defense, through the Defense Advanced Research projects agency and other defense entities because these techn
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In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t