Thank you very much. People fromwith dickinson. What we thought we would do with this section is to make it interactive, audience participation. We are very interested. We have many of our panelists that have remained. We would like them to respond and to participate in this session as well. We want to continue our discussion about the disparate provisions and the negative impact of social media. It is appropriate to let colleagues from penn state to initiate the conversation. Gentlemen, you may proceed. Hello. Thirdyear student at Dickinson School of law. Hello, everybody. My name is brian and i am also a thirdyear student. Happy to be here. So if we could, there we have heard a lot of interesting topics. Im glad we have so many excellent experts on hand with us. We are going to start it rolling a little bit. Talk somewhato about the technology hurdles, or if we have thoughts about ways that we can detect or combat short of this maligned social engineering that you see, mostly with mi
The truth and erode our ability to fight, creating a set of it that no narrative or use source can be trusted at all. Some of the ttts in this space wont necessarily come as as a surprise to you but we talked about intrusion and u. S. Government networks and medical organizations, hack and leak operations related to compromise or embarrassing situations, Cyber Attacks against our eroding infrastructure, the targeting of u. S. Persons or elected officials by social media and disinformation, suppression of voter turnout by spreading misinformation regarding polling and voting, manipulation of media through the injection of false stories, and news reporting. And then subsequent application of the disinformation to shape of the discourse. Shape Public Discourse. There are a few overarching similarities regarding the manner in which our two principal adversaries, china and russia, execute these objectives. Both countries use a whole of government approach. And use sophisticated and aggressi
Coming up, tomorrow night ross park will read from his new novel, who are you, thomas bledsoe. Stephen kinzer will present a history of the cia. We also have some other events next weekend tickets are available for mondays conversation and another talk on wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of rebooting ai building Artificial Intelligence we can trust which argues a computer being a human in jeopardy does not signal we are on the doorstep of solely Autonomous Cars or super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human mind, the book explains if we need to advance Artificial Intelligence to the next level, suggests that if we are wise along the way we will not need to worry about a future of machine overlords. Finally a book that tells us what ai is, what it is not and what a i could become if only we are ambitious and creative enough. A deeply informed account. Gary marcus is founder and ceo of robert robots. A ing metric intelligence and published in journals i
Welcome and thank you all for coming, especially on this evening. Im Eileen Gillooly and. As the executive director of the Society Fellows and heyman ceer humanities here at columbia. Its my privilege as well as my pleasure to welcome you to this evenings celebration of lorraine dustins. New book rivals how science has learned to cooperate. This is the first of what we hope will be many cooperative hosted by the columbia Global Reports, which my colleague Nicholas Lemann will tell you more about in a minute. And the society of fellow at human centers, otherwise known as the of new book series in the society of fellows. Its a series whichondistinguise society of fellows in the humanities at columbia, and which founded in 1975, is about celebrate its 50th anniversary. Before i introduce the speakers and turn over the proceedings to nick, wholl be moderating the conference session, id like to thank all the many folks who helped to make this event possible, especially camille mcduffie, cou
Welcome and thank you all for coming, especially on this evening. Im Eileen Gillooly and. As the execuSociety Fellows andn center for the humanities here at columbia. Its my privilege as well as my pleasure to welcome you to this evenings celebration of lorraine dustins. New book rivals how science has learned to cooperate. This is the first of what we hope will be many cooperative hosted by the columbia Global Reports, which my colleague Nicholas Lemann will tell you minute. And the society of fellow at human centers, otherwise known as the of new book series in the society of fellows. Its a series which honors recent publications of the distinguished alumni of the society of fellows in the humanities at columbia, and which founded in 1975, is about celebrate its 50th anniversary. Before i introduce the speturn o nick, wholl be moderating the conference session, id like to thank all the many folks who helped to make this event possible, especially camille mcduffie, courtney knights, A