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
Brought to you by your television provider. Welcome to todays virtual program, from the Commonwealth Club of california. Im the clubs Vice President of media and your moderator for today. Wed like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. Were of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. Today im pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, Machine Learning. Which was released last week. He discusses theoretical contributions documented in his bestselling book the most human humans and an outer of them to live by. Christians posing questions of if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself is the problem. Hes a professor of philosophy and poetry, tackling the ethical and technological implications of a advanced society becomes more relianton technology. His work intersects elon musk in h
Mike is keeping his eye on the commute. First, meteorologist kari hall and the beautiful shot behind you. Whats that, kari . Well, just a fake background of san jose. Lets talk about whats going on for the bay area for today. Now we will have some hot weather in the valleys and also the north bay wind gusts will be pretty high today. Were worried about the high fire danger as well for today and the next several days as our winds could pick up. Hotter as we take a look at our high temperatures for this afternoon. 83 today in palo alto. Mike, whats the update on the commute . I have real monitors behind me with real Speed Sensors showing you actually changes for oakland. Lets take that up. Well zoom in to the nimitz. The northbound side got the all clear saying they are clear. The southbound side the last two minutes have speeds back to the green level. That construction is cleared heading to 23rd away from the bay bridge. In a couple minutes well show you what things are like and why th
Forces battle to stop taliban fighters closing in on the capital of Helmand Province and flooding and landslides kill or least 36 people in Central Vietnam with more heavy rain forecast. We begin this news hour in europe where many countries are seeing coronavirus cases surged to their highest levels in months and with that comes a wave of new restrictions france will reenter a state of Health Emergency on saturday with weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and 8 other cities you know the 23000 new cases were recorded in the past day but president mccrone insists the outbreak is not out of control meanwhile in the u. K. A new 3 tier alert. System has come into force in england only one city is in the highest level but with almost 20000. 00 new cases in the past 24 hours other areas look set to join it is in the meanwhile has seen its highest daily increase yet with more than 7300 new cases its infection rate has more than doubled in the past 2 weeks and germany hit a 6 month high i
Can you please call the roll . [ roll call ] clerk you have a quorum. Announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Approval of the minutes from the october 6 regular meeting. Can we open up the line for Public Comment on the minutes from the october 6 meeting. You have zero questions remaining. Well pause 20 seconds. If no one comes on the line, well move along. Clerk if members of the public wish to address the board on the meeting, please dial 10 to join the queue. And the number is available on the screen, should anyone want to join. You have zero questions remaining. Then well close Public Comment. Directors, are there any additions or amendments to the minutes . If not, may i hear a motion. Motion. Is there a second . A second. Please call the roll. [ roll call ] clerk 50. Item 5, communications. Due to the covid19 emergency, this meeting is being held virtually and all members of the public and staff are participating via video conference. This will