i became a great friend of eric schmidt who is today one of my best friends. he invited me to the springs and before that showed the sum of the extraordinary achievements. i had barely met him before that and i begin my speech by saying i'm tremendously impressed by what i've seen but i want you all to understand i consider google a threat to civilization and i understand it. [laughter] this was the beginning. of our friendship. [laughter] ... >> and that he was designing a computer and he was confident he could design it so that it would be the champions. and it has 180 pieces and that the game is to constrict the ability of the opponent in the video. but when you put your third piece down it is lined up, you don't know how it will develop and it takes a long time to develop and it is the creative game. so i went up afterwords and said how long will it be that they will achieve intellectual dominance cracks and he said he was working on it. [laughter] so over the years and then to introduce me to artificial intelligence. and i am concerned that historical and

in this portion of the event, former google and have a bit chair eric schmidt spoke with kent walker and joint artificial intelligence center director lieutenant general john shanahan. [applause] >> i hope everyone had a good lunch or is busy finishing up an excellent lunch. with two close friends of mine. i am probably the only person who can say this in the entire world. i work with and for both of them. i want to make sure i disclose my conflict of interest to start with. general shanahan went to michigan. rotc.e, entered service in 1984. azillioneen promoted a g times. eventually we needed someone to implement ai into the entire eod. he was the perfect choice. i have worked with him in my role as chairman of the eib. kent walker was a federal prosecutor. law and order, federal prosecutor who chose to come -- i think he worked at ebay for a while. we snagged him, we being google, 15 years ago? 15 years. every day together. during that time not only did he set up the legal function, but is now in charge of all global policy, pr, although sorts of things together. do, i thought we s

i became a great friend of eric schmidt who is today one of my best friends. he invited me to give the speech at google, and before that they showed me some of their extraordinary achievements. and i had barely met eric before then, and i begin my speech by saying, i'm tremendously impressed by what i have seen, i want you all to understand that i consider google a threat to civilization, as i understand it. [laughing] this was the beginning of our friendship. [laughing] and the next step in my being here was, i was at the national conference, which, in europe, which on its schedule had a provision for artificial intelligence. and i thought this was a great opportunity for me to catch up on my jet lag, and i was heading out of the door when eric, who was standing there, said, this might interest you, and you will ought to hear it. except for that, you might have been spared. [laughing] so i went there and somebody from deep think was explaining that he was designing a computer that would be able to play the game of go, and he was confident that he could design

>> in this portion of the event of formeformer google and execue chair eric schmidt spoke with google senior vice president kent walker and joined artificial intelligence director general john shanahan. >> an excellent lunch. i enjoyed with two close friends of mine and i'm probably the only person who can say this in the entire world i work with and for both of them so i want to make sure i disclose my conflict of interest to start with. enter at the service of the country in 1984 he's been promoted and was in charge of a wholthe whole bunch of intellige activities and operational activities and eventually we needed somebody operationally to implement ai in the entirety of the view was the perfect choice. kent walker is a federal prosecutor law and order federal prosecutor who then chose to come to silicon valley and work that ebay for a while and maybe 15 years ago during that time not only did he set up the legal function but is now in charge of global policy and all those sort of things together. what but i thought we should dos simply start and have you make some comments about t

>> narartor: eric schmidt and google declined toe interviewed for this program.ers' profiles had migrated to other companies, particularly facebook. roger mcnamee was an e ely investor and adviser to facebook. he's now a critic, and wrote a book about the company. he says he's concerned about how dely companies like facebook and google have been casting the net for data. r >> and then lized, "wait a minute, there's all this data in the economy we don't have." so they went to credit card processors, and credit rating services, and said, "we want to buy your data." ssey go to health and well apps and say, "hey, you got women's menstrual cycles? we want all that stuff." why are they doing that? they're doing thatecau behavioral prediction is about taki uncertainty out of life advertising and marketing are all about uncertainty-- you never really know o's going to buy your product. until now. weave to recognize that we gave technology a place in our lives thth it had not earned. at essentially, because tenology always made thing better in the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s,

er eric schmidt, larry page, larisa meyer, different sorts of issues what do they really have to investigatet of the stuff is out there. >> right, it has been considered an open secret in the company for years and we know this particular investigation will include the company's chief legal officer, david drummond, and this has been an open secret, people have known he has supposedly allegedly dated employees, that's what they're going to look into, but no doubt the company knows this already >> all right jennifer elias, thanks for joining us. >> all this happening as the journal says google is weighing changes to its stance on political ads. we'll turn to far hod man june and bethany mclane good to see you. cnn has a piece, not looking at changing the overall policy on ads but to targeting how much is this conversation evolving >> i mean, it is shifting quickly in part because of twitter changing the policy last week, there's been outrage over facebook's policy. google slipped under the radar here, even though google is the biggest digital ads company, and a lot of political spending and adv

eric schmidt, helene cooper write this. "once the comings and goings are done, the total number of united states forces in syria is expected to be about 900, close to the one thousand troops on the ground when mr. trump ordered the withdrawal of american forces from the country." still with us steve schmidt. steve schmidt, the president has told the base we're going to get out of these forever wars. he has told the base it's time to bring our men and women home. i want to show you something else that was designed for the base. this is congressman louie gohmert from texas on the floor of the house. we don't have congressman louie gohmert from texas on the floor of the house. wait until you see him, however. talk about the disconnect, however, between the base that won't hear that there is stasis among our troop levels in the middle east. >> we've had three years of constant lying and gas lighting of the american people, really going back to the first moment of the administration when sean spicer comes out and tells the ameri

we want to thank eric and bob schmidt for getting me to speak here. when congress set up the commission, i couldn't think of two better folks to lead. so i very much appreciate that becauseeo this is one of the issues that is probably the most important facing us. if you look at the ratio of how much attention this issue gets in terms of what the government should be doing as opposed to what's important, it's one of the lowest ratios that there is, and that is not good for the future of the country. we all know artificial intelligence is changingat everything. how we communicate, how we conduct commerce, highly productive store and analyze data, how we protect ourselves. it's going to have a huge impact on national security. and if america can get a guy right, we will be the ones to maintain a national security edge on our adversaries. but the converse is also true. we may lose that edge if we do not get it right or if we are complacent and let others get ahead of us. if we get it right we will be the ones to benefit most from the economic potential o

earlier this week that the national security commission on unofficial intelligence chaired by eric schmidt, former executive chairman issued its report. ". with respect to data, the government is well-positioned to collect useful information from its worldwide network of centers. much of the data is unlabeled and hinted in various silencing his just different networks for inaccessible to the government. even more data is simply expelled as exhaust. because it's not deemed to be immediately relevant. in the infrastructure is woefully inadequate to process the information. we have a very long ways to go to realize the benefits that ai has. and in the case of terrorism, the problem is particularly difficult because so much of our data is unstructured. and it's all in structured in different ways. and that makes it very difficult for the machine to help our analysts. now back to what i said about the evolving nature of the threat. it is all about individuals and networks. as we have seen with homegrown exterior is, it could be extraordinary difficult to income of these individuals. they stack

interest earlier this week the national security commission on artificial intelligence chaired by eric schmidt, former executive chairman of google, issued a report. here's a quote. "with respect to data, the government is well positioned to collect useful information from its worldwide network of sensors, but much of that data is unlabeled, hidden in various silos across disparate networks or inaccessible to the government. even more data is simply expelled as, quote, exhaust, because it is not deemed to be immediately relevant. and the infrastructure is woefully inadequate to process this information. we have a very long ways to go to realize the benefits. in the case of terrorism, the problem is particularly difficult because so-our da mucr data is unstructured and all unstructured in different ways. that makes it very difficult for machines to help our analysts. hearken back to the evolving nature of the threat, it's all about individuals and networks. as we have seen with homegrown violent extremists, it can be extraordinarily difficult to uncover these individuals. the haystack is contin

i feel like congress has been telling us, pleading with us, talking to people like eric schmidt is beena great friend and advisor during my time both here, and pleading with us to go after digital, go after connectivity, make things work together but every budget we send his platform centric. i hope they will smile on the air force, breaking at a platform plan and putting money towards digital transformation. i have got to get this internet type capability developed. which is why we using four-month deployment cycle by traditional acquisition. the internet emerged and it didn't emerge at 100% level. you got little 15% gains over time. we want to reward people and that can demonstrate 15% gains very quickly, not the overly biased to people with a goldplated plan that deliver sleep. that will delineate the true innovators from the pretenders. >> are you concerned shevin had everything? this post be orchestrating this to architecture. >> i believe snc has been meetings with them. i have not had everything from them so it's something that if their budget closes, i would hope we would move f

in this portion of the event, former google and have a bit chair eric schmidt spoke with kent walker joint artificial intelligence center director lieutenant general john shanahan. [applause]