[applause] now, we can see it all around us, a peculiar fascination with dystopia in our culture today. you see it everywhere on film and tv. but the truth is, on balance, we have the good fortune to live in a time of tremendous possibility and potential. a time when it is within our grasp to eliminate extreme poverty, and terrible diseases like malaria and tb, and offer a real chance at education to everyone on this planet. [applause] but for us to move forward, to keep moving forward, we have to do it together. all together. humanity has to fight our tribal mindset. we go to the same church, cool, you are in my tribe. you speak my language, you are in my tribe. you are an nyu alumni, you are in my tribe. [applause] you play pokemon go, you are a vegetarian, you like the yankees, you go to the gun range, you are pro-choice, tribe, tribe, tribe. see, it is not that belonging part that is the real problem, it is the corollary. you are part of my tribe, they are not. whether it is a race, gender, language, sexual orientation, or religious and ethnic origin, or beliefs and values themselv

like a science fiction dystopia it's like mind police if you have a if you think about crime then basically the government should step in and stop you doing it basically if you say i think you're building a bomb then the police will just take you away and put you into jail that's basically the status of course some checks and balances on it but it's all really really undefined. you get all sorts of people protesting. so christopher i would say to our audience of course sebastian didn't want his face shown because he is afraid about the implications of this bill that's how much he fears that but he talks about it just being overall vague i know that you had a group of students actually poor through the wording on this see you hopefully know best is he right to have fear. well i hope he's not right to have few to show his face because he's protesting against a police law in a country that has the rule of law over it and where the constitutional rights are protected very much but he has a point when it comes to the confusing the new terms because i wanted to jump in earlier but i wanted stepha

to consider such dystopia in the toper light, i've come inonto's geekiest bar to case myself in the steel ai philosopher. the con case around ai? what's the nastiest scenario? >> unfortunately, there's no shortage of nasty scenarios. this is what makes artificial intelligence such a scary thing, all the different ways it can go wrong. it can be everything from an accident, where we didn't think it through -- we gave a very powerful computer instructions to do something. we thought we explained it articulately, and it completely took a different path than we thought it would in such a way that it caused great damage. i'm sure you've all heard the paperclip example. you are a paperclip manufacture, they say we need lots of paperclips, and because the ai has so much reach and power, it converts all the matter in molecules in the planet paperclips. scenario, but it is illustrative. we can be dismissive of the perils. that is exceptionally dangerous. early tohink it is too start raising the alarm bells about it. clippyg turned into sounds awful. but fear not. we'll have years to ease into that

but i interrupted-- you were ushering in a dystopia?says it is trying to purify society by rewarding those who are trustworthy and punishing those who are not. >> stephen: china, if you want to purify something, maybe start with your sky. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) well, i cannot let this stand. so i want to address my chinese audience for a second. good people of china, "ni hao. ( laughter ) this oppressive system of draconian government control leads down a dark path to-- oh, wait. is china scoring this? well, darn it, i don't care. this needs to be said. no matter what -- okay, hold on. stop. i do love some things about china. you have a rich history and culture. oh, good. okay. okay. what else? uh-- i enjoyed "kung-fu panda"! no, wait! look! one of my writers is chinese! james, get up here! chinese! >> actually stephen, i'm taiwanese. (buzzer) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: dammit, james! you know, we have one china policy here at "the late show"! now i'm going to get purified. back in the writer's hole! we'll be ri

why do we have to build dystopia?an't we ask the questions first and apply the technology rationally after we've answered them? >> as exciting as it is scary. >> yes. >> thank you. every time you're on we learn something. oftentimes not necessarily what we want to learn but we learn something. >>> a live picture here. a group in new york waiting for president trump to arrive. the name left off the list from his administration -- it might surprise you. who will not be in that room. >>> also, republicans wanting to keep their seats caught off guard by the president when he seemed to be caught off guard by a get out the vote push that someone snuck into his speech. >> i'm not sure i really believe that, but, you know. i don't know who's hell wrote that line. er things than er things than rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough.

description of the danger posed be refugees, and then a belief that the current vetting system was dystopia. neither of which are true. it's quite interesting. i just kind of add this as a footnote. going into more detail in the become. after the first executive order came out, five former directors or acting directors of the cia, two former deputy directors, a director of national intelligence and away for intelligence of the national counterterrorism center joined an amicus brief in the court to push back against the executive order. we have lots of concerns. get into the fine print you like if the fundamental concern was decisionmaking based on something other than data. it was the rhetoric of the campaign becoming the departure point for the direction of the nation's security policy. one more example about the second layer of the cake. obama wire tapped trump tower temp you have he director onational intelligence agency, the attorney general, saying it ain't so but remains so in the -- what's the right word -- mythology of the administration, and frankly in the belief system of a big ch

other side is a fear of what this could do to save the dream of interfacing with the dark side of dystopia what is determined the act of cognition were at big brother -like figure could gain control to decide how we function there is an enthusiasm and also a fear is isn't something that everybody does that fair amount of work in the field and writing about these things. first of all i think to the extent that we regard that as the encapsulation of our soul becomes more nifty to play around with it but it's not as cool as it sounds so the most famous of the lobotomy tools involve sticking needles into somebody's eye and of course on a fairly routine basis to treat epilepsy patients with those parts of the brain with those parts of the brain is these are done in extreme cases and the techniques themselves are dangerous so the lobotomy itself 5% of people died or something like that and another significant percentage were harmed is not something you would you just for fun but the cutting edge is shown by something over here she was a quadriplegic and lost control of all limbs but with the aid