What do tech billionaires, espionage and AI have in common? Power: Tech leaders crave it, spies need it and AI delivers it. Can we exist in a world where technology advances without guardrails? Should we regulate it or embrace it? These authors sound the alarm on rapidly changing technology and those who control it.
| Where: | UA Mall Tent (Seats 250)    |
| When: | Sat, Mar 14, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - Central Mall (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Current Issues / Politics / Social Science |
| Moderator: | Tim Steller |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Pepper Viner Homes |
Jacob Silverman is an independent journalist in New York. He's the co-author of The New York Times best seller “Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud," and the author of “Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection....
Nate Soares is the president of Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). He has been working in the intelligence field for over a decade, after previous experience at Microsoft and Google. Soares is the author of a large body of technical and semi-technical writing on AI alignment, has been interviewed in Vanity Fair and The Financial Times, and has spoken on conference panels alongside many of the AI field’s leaders....
Anthony Vinci is the author of "The Fourth Intelligence Revolution: The Future of Espionage and the Battle to Save America." Earlier in his career he served as an intelligence officer in Iraq, Africa, and Asia....
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