The Commonwealth Club of california. I am john zipperer, Vice President of media and editorial and a moderator for this program. We would like to thank our members, donors and supporters for making this and all of our programs possible. We are grateful for their support and we welcome others joined them and supporting the club drink these uncertain times. I am please be joined by brian christian, government author of the new book the alignment problem Machine Learning and human values. His best offer to first get a contribution to the Tech Industry and document in his best bestselling book the most human human and algorithms to live by. In his new book he poses questions such as every content neutral on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself becomes a problem . With degrees in philosophy, Computer Science and poetry, christian has spent his career tackling the ethical advancing society and become more reliant on technology. His work is got the attent
Right now the state says 2. 5 million of the 3. 1 mailin ballots requested, those have been cast and that means received and deemed legally eligible 1. 1 million of those mailin ballots, theyve actually been counted. Here in pennsylvania, all mailin ballots received by friday, 5 00 p. M. Will be counted unless theres evidence that the ballot was mailed after election day mailin ballots, especially those received after the election has been a source of controversy in p. A. , republicans leaders calling on the secretary of state to resign over her guidance on how counties should deal with those ballots and if ballots received after election day should be kept separate from those received by election day a short time ago, the governor addressing that controversy. Pennsylvania will have a Fair Election and that election will be free of outside influences. I will vigorously and we all will vigorously defend against any attempt to attack that vote in pennsylvania. And when it comes to ballot
Now, tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself, if i think there needs to be continuity and balance, and sometimes i might ask the candidates to respond to what another candidate may have said. Now, the format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that is restricted anything goes, we can ask anything. After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing statement. So, president bush, i think you said it earlier, lets get it on. Pres. Bush lets go. Ms. Simpson and i think the first question is over here. Yes, id like
Remember this gem from a couple of weeks ago . [inaudible conversations] one vanilla, one chocolate. But i wanted to get what we call black and white, but were going to [inaudible] gerry withering questioning. This week there was this shocking expo is say from from e new york times. How the candidate is dealing without being warm and friendly to people because of the coronavirus. Helping a candidate over the line will, in fact, be successful. Later well talk to a couple of pollsters. But first, encouraging news on the economy this week even as coronavirus causes continue to rise and fears grow of another lockdown. Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 33 in the three months through september. Now, of course, that followed the dedecline of more than 30 in thes previous quarter. Arithmetic tells us that doesnt mean its back to where it was. In the final days of the campaign, both candidates talked about their economic plans. Joe biden insisted he would take measures to keep th
Remember this gem from a couple of weeks ago . [inaudible conversations] one vanilla, one chocolate. But i wanted to get what we call black and white, but were going to [inaudible] gerry withering questioning. This week there was this shocking expo is say from from e new york times. How the candidate is dealing without being warm and friendly to people because of the coronavirus. Helping a candidate over the line will, in fact, be successful. Later well talk to a couple of pollsters. But first, encouraging news on the economy this week even as coronavirus causes continue to rise and fears grow of another lockdown. Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 33 in the three months through september. Now, of course, that followed the dedecline of more than 30 in thes previous quarter. Arithmetic tells us that doesnt mean its back to where it was. In the final days of the campaign, both candidates talked about their economic plans. Joe biden insisted he would take measures to keep th