used social media and a way that was never. it s out there, baby. follow the tweets. thank you so much, facebook, for hosting this, first of all. we really saw this love affair lawson between washington, d.c. and silicon valley. my name is barack obama, and i m the guy who got mark to wear a jacket and tie. social media was originally seen as a way for people to come together to debate the issues of the day and the internet had opened up so much information. to people across the world, and people could now see their leaders for what they were, potentially, and move away from authoritarianism. it was some of the most visible examples of this. average people start to rise up and rebel against authoritarian governments where the idea of revolution was not accepted before because it was lethal. the only barrier to people uprising and revolution is the
there were a number of movements that really harnessed social media. occupy wall street. [chanting] [yael] the black lives matter movement. [chanting] even something like the ice bucket challenge. it s fun. it s silly, but it raised millions of dollars for als research. and it s a really good example of the way a movement using this chaos and fun on social media can really cause some great things to happen. but these platforms that are allowing something like an ice bucket challenge or the arab spring can also be used by authoritarian dictators. [woman] egypt s supreme military council now has its own facebook page, the very platform used by activists to organize the revolution. [sheera] the mubarak regime largely ignored social media. post mubarak, you have the muslim brotherhood and then the egyptian military really used the internet as a way to control the population. they use it to crack down on lgbt groups.
[wael] without facebook, twitter, google, youtube, appe ned. how big an impact has social networking had on our lives, it s huge. we have of the dogs on it. without facebook, twitter, google, u2, this revolution could never have happened. you guys end up spending 45 minutes or an hour instead of just going to sleep? yeah. managing my brand placements, it s a full-time job. your news fr om? before i get out of bed every morning, i m always on twitter. fake news can have real-world consequences. the pandemic wasn t real and we re here to take the country back. [music]
served with fries and a drink, starting at $9. download the app and earn double rewards on steakburgers for a limited time. [music] [yael] all of these social media companies were rising during the 2010s, but people don t always realize just how big facebook was. that company scaled majorly to dominate the globe. i m standing outside the main school in the village of muyungang in rural myanmar. if all goes to plan, this community that has no paved road, piped water or grid electricity will be at the center of a mobile phone revolution.
president mark rotenberg joins us live. one is on the east coast and one on the west coast. guys, good morning to you. good morning. good morning. steve: lewis, you are out on the west coast right now. explain for the folks what is ai? what is artificial intelligence and what can it do? what s your worry? yeah, so, ai in broader sense is when computers can replace human level tasks and we have been working on that for decades and decades but all of a sudden very, very quickly, we are now on the verge of a revolution that where ai has the potential to change society in really large ways. as big as the pc revolution, internet revolution, mobile phone revolution in the very near future we will just talk to our computers and they will talk back. and that s how we are interact with a lot of our software and that s a really big change and then we will ask our computers to create content. documents, artwork, videos.