Hello and welcome to tonights virtual Commonwealth Club program. My name is read and im a Technology Reporter with the Washington Post and im pleased to be the moderator for tonights program, the historical importance of the transformation brought on by Artificial Intelligence and virtual environment. As we have seen over the last three months with the covid19 pandemic and with social media with the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and the aftermath , technology and online environments that every aspects of our life here tonight i am pleased it to be joined by two Silicon Valley pioneers to discuss these issues. William davidow and Michael Malone, their new book, the autonomous revolution reclaiming the future of the machines is out now and delves deeply into the revolution we are living through regarding a i and virtual environment and it can be purchased everywhere including bn. Com. A bit about tonight speakers, bill david, the cofounder of the earlier in his career he worked
Dr. Anthony fauci the top disease expert and three other members of the task force testified before a House Committee on capitol hill. They were grilled on the claim made by trump in tulsa over the weekend and again Tuesday Morning that he asked for the testing to be slowed down because more infections were revealed that made the country look bad. Would you just kidding . I do not kid. Let me make it clear. To my knowledge, none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. Reporter the other factors the search of coronavirus cases including here in california which had a single day record of more than 5000 new infections on monday. Hospitalizations have crept up to 5000. An increase in Community Spread is something i am quite concerned about. Reporter the bright spot is the fast results of operation warp speed. The head of the National Institute says he is cautiously optimistic that one will be available by late this year or early next year. Several are moving along at various pi
Hello and welcome to tonight virtual commonwealth program. My name is reed im a Technology Reporter with the Washington Post for employees to be the moderator for tonights program on a critical topic historical importance of the transformation brought on by artificial intelligent and virtual environments. As we have seen so acutely over the past three months with the covid19 pandemic in the social media with the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and its aftermath technology in online environments guide every aspect of our lives. Tonight i am pleased to be joined by two Silicon Valley pioneers to discuss these issues further. William davidow and Michael Malone, their new book the atoll must revolution was out now it delves deeply into the revolution we are living through regarding ai, the virtual environment. It can be purchased everywhere including bn. Com. A little bit about our speakers, William Davidow he earlier career worked at intel was credited to being one of the pioneers
Looks cooler. It could be significant cooler and cooler across the board. A pretty good fog bank. Nothing new there. It burns off nine or 10 and heads to the coast. Cool coast and hot inland. Temperatures upper 90s to near 100 for some and we go from cold to mild to warm to hot and you dont want to see that right there. Thats the fog and low clouds and that gives way and thunderstorms are in the mountains but this is a stable pattern and temperatures inland are quite hot in a heat advisory to the valley but on the coast field fog bank is hanging out there. Highs below average for some and above for most and away from the coast and bay. Over to sal now. Good morning, sir. s still pretty quiet, steve. Good morning to you. Traffic is quiet at the bay bridge. At the san mateo bridge. And even on the 580 approach to the altamont pass. We are our tonight start and this is what we would expect for this time of the morning. As you see here on interstate 880, the traffic in both directions look
Spring was one change after another. Now everythings very stable, locked in with only just subtle changes. One day it may be one degree warmer and one cooler. Theres not a lot going on. Theres thunderstorms in the sierra. Thats different for us. Not my forecast. I have to mention it. Good morning. We have traffic around the bay area. If youre driving to the bay bridge, youll see the traffic is light. People are out there but its crowded. 5 01. Lets go back to the head lines. Thank you. Happening today there could be a major change in who is called when theres an emergency on a School Campus is oakland. In a School Board Meeting a couple of weeks ago there was a movement. Theyll consider a proposal to remove the unified Police Department, set a time line and talk about developing another safety plan. The ous Police Department has seven officers, two sergeants and a chief. They arent at schools but respond when theres issues. At a meeting earlier this month, they support superintendent j