Alignment problem. It was released just last week. He offers theoretical contributions to the industry documenting in his bestselling book the most human human outer rhythms to live by. In his new book, question such as if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, whathappens when ai itself is the problem. Greenbergs last seen Computer Scientists tackling the obstacles of technological implication of an advanced new society that has become more like on technology. His work on Technology Leaders such as eli must once put the question in his 2000 book the most human human for his night table reading. In his new book the alignment problem is dependence on ai questions whether or not the system can help us or the systems simply are a replication of an inevitable human desire, how can we handle ontechnology. Here he argues that all these things make decisions for us, essentially we will be discussing a lot of the next hour and i want to ask your questions to watc
48 after the event. Let me say a few words about our speaker. now in his second tm of te u. S. Civil rights commissions book the moral foundation of economic behavior was nominated for the highest book prize in his latest book which is the subject of our talk today is on why culture matters most. This is an extremely important book given the political and cultural crisis that we now find ourselves in here in america. Think about it, the institutions that are supposed to hand down the great cultural inheritance of western civilization, the civilization upon which the United States faced are failing miserably at the respective tasks in education, media, the arts, business, politics. Its hard to think of an Important Institution in America Today that takes seriously the virtues and the ideals that make it possible it requires a trust, high trust society. Many would argue that this is the one type of society we do not now have. We seem to be educating the next generation intellectually, mo
Our first speaker is joanne mcneil, author of lurking, the inaugural winner of the art foundations art writing award for an emerging writer, resident at ivy, Logan Nonfiction Program fellow and instructor. Our next speaker will be sorry. Hang on. Sorry. I had the video open on my computer and sending my own words back to me. It was very confusing. Our second speaker will be Charlton Mcilwain, author of black software, the internet and Racial Justice. The vice provost of faculty engagement at New York University and professor of Media Communication at nyu steinberg school, our final speaker is author of the new laws of robotics, Robert Citino from the Yale Information Society project. So take it away, joann. Im happy to be on this panel with two others i really appreciate and a topic im sure we have so much to say about. There is something of a history. There are many things to look at and representative of missed opportunities. I wanted to focus on ten or 12 years ago, the time of the
Of freedom and democracy in American Foreign policy will feature general hr mcmasters who served in the military for 34 years and held the position of the 20 sixth assistant to the president for National Security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. He will talk about his new book battlegrounds the fight to defend the free world, with doctor michael crow, the sixteenth president of Arizona State university. Mccain Institute Trustee and a dear friend of the family. We are honored to host mcmaster for what is an important and timely discussion on us foreign policy. You can begin. Glad to see everybody here. What i want to do first is say the book is a fantastic piece of work, got many little tags on it. I want to spend some time relative to a set of core ideas you put out in this book some that are fantastic in the sense that they are concepts we should be using in the articulation of our thinking about foreignpolicy and National Defense policy and so for
[laughter] that is not a recipe for progress. To watch the rest of this Program Visit our website booktv. Org and click on the after words tab to find deborah stones interview along with all previous episodes. High everybody. Welcome to the National Book festival and this had difficult time of the pandemic. One thing we can do, i know you are loving it as i am is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which was about a cia officer who was struggling with one of the central problems of our time. Which is knowing what is true and what isnt. And it is my great pleasure to have with me today, toeople who wrote two of the very best books of this summer. About issues related to our new technological associated world. First i want to introduce mark galvin my former colleague at the Washington Post wrote an extraordinary memoir of his dealings with Andrew Snowden that led to t revelations out nsa technology and surveillance. The subtitle of his book says the american