The latest FEMA “strategic plan” mentions “risking natural hazard risk” but not a peep about global warming, rising sea levels or devastating weather. Alice Hill, a Hoover Institution research fellow focusing on building resilience to catastrophic events, discusses the Trump Administration’s reluctance to utter the phrase “climate change” and where scientific debate stands in 2018.
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In the span of a few years, China and the United States have each assembled something future historians might recognize as a new kind of empire. Their dominions extend not merely over territory, trade routes, and airspace but over knowledge itself.
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Georgetown University computer scientist Cal Newport offers questions to pose to Congress about AI regulation, followed by the fellows discussing what’s behind Western Europe’s riots and President Trump’s surly attitude toward Ukraine (most recently, his threat to take away Starlink internet service).
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Fei-Fei Li, the “Godmother of AI,” speaks with Stephen Kotkin about her journey to the frontiers of spatial intelligence.
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