Nominee. applause for the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening, and the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to gov. Dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable Death Penalty for he killer . No, i dont, bernard. And i think you know that ive opposed the Death Penalty during all of my life. I dont see any evidence that its a deterrent, and i think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. Weve done so in my own state. And its one of the reasons why we have had the biggest drop in crime of any industrial state in america; why we have the lowest murder rate of any industrial state in america. But we have work to
First a few administrative matters. We have gotten advice from the sergeant at arms, the health and Human Services centers for disease control, individuals in the hearing room will he at least 6 feet apart. There is no room for the public and therefore but this is all streaming and therell be an unedited version of it that anyone can watch later. Witnesses are participating by videoconference today and some senators are as well. I like to Say Something about mask. The office of attending physician has said since we are 6 feet apart we dont need to wear masks although some may. Thats why my mask is off. Although i have one and i wear it outside because as dr. Redfield reminded us yesterday its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms the press gallery and the Capitol Police and chung check in the Evan Griffith r. Staff, all their hard work in helping to keep us safe in helping us do these conferences by video with wh
Companies, the same companies that control the lions share of patterns, that have an extra amount of my comp that are able to attract the best talent because that the best food, you know, that have the relationships with universities and it doesnt mean there are not other Companies Like salesforce or nvidia uber that are not doing Amazing Things but its through these nine compass Everything Else flows. The entire ai ecosystem in some way or another patches of these nine. In addition to all of the things i just mentioned they also building the frameworks and the custom silicone chips and they have the code bases. All roads lead to these nine companies, and the challenge that i have is that if its the case that Artificial Intelligence is not just been built to create a better microwave, although thats cool, but instead to optimize our lives come using data as currency, what does it mean when we relegate that to just a handful of companies and handful of people working at these companies
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Business professor amy webb argues Artificial Intelligence is giving too much power to big corporations. My job is to model risk and i focus on technology and i come back to the same nine companies. They have relationships with universities and it doesnt mean that there are not other Companies Like salesforce or guber that are not doing Amazing Things they are also building the frameworks and theyve got the code bases. All of the roads lead to this end of the challenge that i have is if it is the case that Artificial Intelligence is not just being built to create a better microwave, although that is cool but to optimize our lives using a. Companies that dont look like us and dont have the same worldview as assess their publicly traded companies but i lived in china and japan and anybody that watches does publicly traded companies are still under the thumb of beijing aso there is no escape. It is because you are in lockstep with the Chinese Government and that matters because they had a