Welcome to the Alex Salmonds show. Last saturday some. 4 days after the election, senator joe biden became president elect joe biden. Now in line to the come, the 46 president of the United States with the highest ever popular vote in american history. I bet the Vice President elect kamel how this becoming the 1st woman and indeed 1st woman of color to ever hold that office. Dubai. The success and president trumps departure was widely welcomed across the world. However, our guest today had a very special reason for interest in the change of tenure in the white house today. Alex interviews allegedly photographer haile babysitter, who is portrait, studied every sitting american president since dwight eisenhower. Today we look at president ial politics, but with a difference through the lens of how the bateson but 1st to teach mischief. Now alex started last picture with a very personal tribute to a special friend of his. And im just says a very moving powerful and personal tribute to so
This was the first of a twopart program, you can view this and all other american artifacts programs at her website, cspan. Org history. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next we take you inside thes house wing of the u. S. Capital to learn about the history of women in congress. And second of a twoFarar Elliott program we continue the story beginning in the 1940s with republican congresswomen Clare Boothe Luce. Im Farar Elliott curateor for the house of representatives, which means i take care of the artwork and objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im Matthew Wasniewski and historian at the house. And my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists, and to con dpdu oral histories. We reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. And we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can
Evening, everybody im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight, so lets get straight to it. Heres where power shutoffs stand right now this is a pg and e map for right now. And we have Team Coverage tonight we will begin with our Lawrence Karnow in the Weather Center with the latest on the wind event which is really the main concern when it comes to the fire danger tonight. Lawrence yeah, i certainly weve seen some tremendous winds. Well, the strongest wind events of the season so far in fact youre seeing latest image here weve got High Pressure out there in the pacific weve got a low pressure just to our east and really the difference between these 2 which is causing all the gusty winds not only here but around the state southern california. Theyve got the santa ana blowing too. Theyve got an active fire there causing some extremely dangerous conditions right now that ridge building in over the upset in northwest, great basin that low kick into these once these begin
Alignment problem. Those theoretical contributions the bestselling book the most human human and his new book if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence what happens when ai itself becomes the problem with those implications and then from his 2011 book with the alignment problems it is the replication of human bias and argues although we train these to make decisions for us will be discussing a lot in the next hour and please put your questions and the text chat today thank you brian and welcome and thank you for joining us. This is not your first book. The obvious question why did you decide to tackle this topic now . Great question. The initial the for the book and as you mentioned vanity fair reported elon musk with the reading and i found myself in 2014 attending a Silicon Valley book talk with a bunch of investors and seeing the thing about elon musk reading the book of the invited him and to my surprise he came. There was a fascinating moment at the end of the dinner when
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