Hello and welcome to tonight commonwealth program. Im a Technology Reporter with washington post. Please to be the moderator for tonights program on critical topic. The historical importance of the transformation from on by Artificial Intelligence and virtual environments. As we have seen so acutely the past three months, the covid19 pandemic and social media and the killing of george floyd in minneapolis in the aftermath. Technology in online environments guide every aspect of our lives. Tonight i am pleased to be joined by silicone valley pioneers to discuss these issues further. William davidow and michael malone. Their new book, the autonmous revolution, reclaiming the future to be sold to machines. They dove deeply into the revolution there are living through regarding ai virtual environment. The book could be purchased everywhere including cn. Com. A little bit about tonights features. The cofounder of the capital. Earlier in his career he worked at intel rated and is credited as
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Questioning its safety and whether or not it will actually bypass Central Banks well for more on this were joined by political host ben so on and christiane i ben lets start with you because this is something that weve talked about multiple times on this show that the fed will soon attempt to create its own Digital Currency now i think its fair to say this move doesnt catch you as a surprise break down what this could look like would we have a digital wallet separate from your regular Bank Accounts well essentially thats probably what would happen i guess thats what theyre trying to get in my teeth to take a look at whats fascinating about this is the feds terminology ive been saying for well over a year the fed was going to do this at some point very soon in fact i think i even said it this week and yet here we are at this moment where the fed is saying well were going to create a hypothetical Digital Currency is not hypothetical dont even talk like that right thats ridiculous termino
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The United States and good luck to them right now when you watch whats happening with big coing now on the rise again headed back towards 12000. 00 and probably from there so i think its going to be an interesting kind of process to watch this happen but theres a 2 to 3 years thats an eternity in the lifespan of Digital Currency that gives a bit quaint a chance to go even higher but kristie you 2 have been very critical of this idea as government backed Digital Currencies are not the same thing as crypto currencies are you weary of this move by the. Extremely this is very very concerning because the entire point of crypto currency was to have Financial Freedom and bypassed the central bank as a whole so now its c. B. C. s us centrally or something going to counter the exact same problems that we currently have with the us youre going to be subject to the manipulations by the central bank whether or not they want to tighten or loosen their Monetary Policy theyre going to be subject to a