and now we're've having a lot of corporate, large companies who want to better understand a.i., and interesting group are people who are head h. r. and the common conversation we have is the head of h.r. with fly to toronto saying we're training to learn more but a.i. need to know for recruiting what types of skills ooh we recruit for, how should we train our staff, and in order to prepare them for a.i. we need to know nor other parts of our company if the sales, manufacturing, design, but not for my department because i work in h.r. h.r. is a very human business but their the other parts of the company we need to learn about a.i. for recruiting. now, most of you know where this is going. one by one, a.i. companies are transforming the h.r. process into a series of predictions. what do h.r people do? i they're, they recruit. recruiting is effectively now a prediction problem. we get a series of resumes and cover letters and interview transcripts and then we predict from set of applicants applicane best nor job. >>> once we hired people the next thing we do is promotion. what's pronotion a prediction

group. there are many women in the first generation of a.i. experts. >> yeah. two or three clicks down in the references cited by your testimony, you look at the papers there a the author list, it is pretty clear that our dominance in a.i. is due to immigrants. okay? and dr. lee, i suspect you might not have come to the country under the conditions being presented by the president. but it is important. it is immigrants, okay? i'll just leave it at that, and i guess my time is up. >> thank the witnesses for their testimony and the members for their questions. the record will remain open for two weeks for additional comments and questions. the hearing is adjourned. >>> fbi director christopher wray and rod rodden stein testified thursday about actions taken by the fbi and the justice department during the 2016 elections, including the clinton e-mail investigation. watch live thursday at 1:00 p.m. eastern or listen with the free c-span radio app. >>> this past week with the help of our cable partners, the c-span bus traveled to juno in alas alaska. we travel to ou

retired pentagon officials w a group ofoogle engineers threatened to quit after thousands of google employees petitioned the company to stop working with the pentagon on a separate a.i, which would develop artial intelligence that wou quickly sort through data and images sent back from drone in the hunt forterrorists. google pulled out of the contract succumbing to engineers that warned about using science to take ofhe kill chain. shep? >> shepard: thanks, jennifer. using science to take humans out of the kill change. artificial intelligence far from perfect. for example, in one case last year, students at mit said they tricked a computer to report that it spotted a rifle. it was actually a turtle. the venue is set for president trump's meeting with kim jong-un and here it is. >> the white house announced the two leaders will meet at this luxury hotel on a resort island off of singapore's southern coast. the scheduled summit is one week from now. the planning continuedy. our secretary of state mike pompeo at the white house. what are you hearing about a possible deal with north korea? >> shep, the teams are negotiating right now. the team trying to come up with more

group to manage. >> google had to cut ties over a defense contract that involved a.i. because employees revolted.longer going to be this coziness between silicon valley and the military, isn't that a big problem for this country? >> you know, it's weird. i think it's on a case-by-case basis. i think the way the leverage works right now in silicon valley is you have to keep the programmers happy. and that leverage may change over time. but for now at least, at least in microsoft's case, it may not. >> i'm going to watch amazon, which is doing more government contracting than ever. >>> paper or plastic we're not talking about bags next, the fast food industry is revamping straws we'll tell you why and what's at stake. anyone can get you ready, holiday inn express gets you the readiest. because ready gives a pep talk. showtime! but the readiest gives a pep rally. i cleared my inbox! holiday inn express, be the readiest. this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing