Biography is alienating those the way the visual presentation there, the way they are written so i wanted the reader to feel like they had never read the president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book at the beginning of each section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts so that was part of it, i did think a lot about my reader and the other part, washington has been called by an adams family series editor, president ial editor. They edit the papers. Called him that to my face. [laughter] adams which you cant compare, there too much fun. The thing is, you can break him out of this mode, he can be fun and interesting but you have to have fun with them, its a whole different thing but a lot of the things you see are the way i organized it in my head when i was trying to make sure that things across and i decided to be vulnerable and share with everyone. I do think there are certain things that help you understand, i can tell you
Welcome back ourwitnesses and i now recognize the gentle lady from washington. Thank you mister chairman and thank you all for your very informative testimony. You all touched on this but a common refrain we hear from companies is during the course of this committees investigation but also just on my own i have many of them in my district is that they cant possibly be violating antitrust laws and the primary argument is that its because many other products either cheap or free and therefore consumers are inherently benefiting. You all have indifferent ways talk about this. To me the big question of course is is free really free . Consumers i think its increasingly clear are paying for the products that they use read theyre paying in data, theyre paying in privacy and often dont know theyre giving up and of course the Big Tech Companies use that data to build these massive empires of information about consumers then give them spectacular advantage over newcomer businesses, allow these c
Next, financial analysts review the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Capital Markets. House Financial Services subcommittee examined ais impact on minorities. Cyber security measures, encouraging more young people to Study Technology and how the us can remainglobally competitive. The task force will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized todeclare a recess at any time without objection. Members of the full committee not on this task force are authorized to participate in todays hearing. This hearing is entitled robust onwall street, the impact of ai on Capital Markets and jobs and the Financial Services industry. The chair will now recognize himself or five minutes or an Opening Statement area thank you all for joining us today for what should be avery interesting hearing of this task force. Today were looking at exploring how ai is being deployed at Capital Markets from automated trading to Portfolio Allocation to Investment Management decisions. Were going to co
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[applause] my name is justin desmangles. I am the chair of the before Columbus Foundation. About eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. There were some very big shoes to fill. Of course, i want to thank our friends at the San Francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. Also our friend at cspan who continue to support the Historical Mission of the before Columbus Foundation and american book awards. I will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. Over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area and nationally, including those with the San Francisco Public Library who i am very honored to say, one of the representatives, stuart shaw who has been instrumental facilitating the collaboration between the before Columbus Foundation