hi, nice to be with kqed. you just said there's 30 members who have gone down to l.a. are more potentially going down and how long are you expecting they'll be there? i'll let you answer that question. >> thank you, mary. and thank you for the question . i was actually just got off a call right before this press conference with my colleagues in l.a. from the department of emergency management. >> there they are. they have been working nonstop since before the fire started and they're tired and they are in the process of requesting additional assistance. they know that we are ready to go. not only my department but i'm coordinating management leads from other departments to go down to help. well, you have to understand is that there is a process by which they county and the city must request the assistance. the worst thing is to arrive uninvited before they're ready. so that is in process and i fully expect that we will get those mutual aid requests within the coming days. the fire chiefs can speak more to this. this is an active response. the fires are still burning. t

she's senior editor at kqed valley newsdesk and a frequent moderator at the commonwealth club. please join me in welcoming gary marcus and rachael myrow. well, as you've just heard, this is not going to be the of a booster. in fact, i thought i might start out a by reading a list here from page 70 the biggest in media at risks of generative ai. let's just read it out disinformation market manipulation, accidental death, non-consensual deepfake accelerating cybersecurity and bias and discriminate asian privacy and data leaks. intellectual property taken consent overreliance on unreliable systems. and last but not least environmental costs. so who any any of you missed because you did write this in two months, right? i did actually write about a countenanced the possibility that i might have missed some i think the one thing it's already there but that i really wish i had have been able to add was a recent study in is either or nature showing covert racism and what the authors showed is that if you speak in african-american english as opposed to standard english you get different

hi, nice to be with kqed. you just said there's 30 members who have gone down to l.a. are more potentially going down and how long are you expecting they'll be there? i'll let you answer that question. >> thank you, mary. and thank you for the question . i was actually just got off a call right before this press conference with my colleagues in l.a. from the department of emergency management. >> there they are. they have been working nonstop since before the fire started and they're tired and they are in the process of requesting additional assistance. they know that we are ready to go. not only my department but i'm coordinating management leads from other departments to go down to help. well, you have to understand is that there is a process by which they county and the city must request the assistance. the worst thing is to arrive uninvited before they're ready. so that is in process and i fully expect that we will get those mutual aid requests within the coming days. the fire chiefs can speak more to this. this is an active response. the fires are still burning. t

hi, nice to be with kqed. you just said there's 30 members who have gone down to l.a. more potentially going down and how long are you expecting they'll be there? i'll let you answer that question. >> thank you, mary. and thank you for the question . i was actually just got off a call right before this press conference with my colleagues in l.a. from the department of emergency management. >> there they are. they have been working nonstop since before the fire started and they're tired and they are in the process of requesting additional assistance. they know that we are ready to go. not only my department but i'm coordinating management leads from other departments to go down to help. well, you have to understand is that there is a process by which they county and the city must request the assistance. the worst thing is to arrive uninvited before they're ready. so that is in process and i fully expect that we will get those mutual aid requests within the coming days. the fire chiefs can speak more to this. this is an active response. the fires are still burning. they'

hi nice to be with kqed. you just said there's 30 members who have gone down to l.a.et you answer that question. >> thank you mary. and thank you for the question . i was actually just got off a call right before this press conference with my colleagues in l.a. from the department of emergency management. >> there they are. they have been working nonstop since before the fire started and they're tired and they are in the process of requesting additional assistance. they know that we are ready to go. not only my department but i'm coordinating management leads from other departments to go down to help. well you have to understand is that there is a process by which they county and the city must request the assistance. the worst thing is to arrive uninvited before they're ready. so that is in process and i fully expect that we will get those mutual aid requests within the coming days. the fire chiefs can speak more to this. this is an active response. the fires are still burning. they're not in recovery yet. some of the things that they are just getting up they've had s

i came to the sfmta after i heard jeff tomlin interviewed on kqed forum at the end of 2019. he was talking about transportation equity, and at the time, i worked at a health equity organization where we focused on how the community determinants of health, including transportation, impacted people's health. and i was like, wow, i want to work for this guy. and i applied for a job and it took a really long time. but i eventually got the job and my cover letter, i said, like, if you all really want to make these changes in the agency that you say you want to make, i want to come work for you. and i thought, well, if they don't want to make them, they they won't even interview me. so anyway, they hired me. i want to i could have said this at our staff party for you, which we're going to have one. but i wanted to say it publicly. i've had a lot of bosses in my life, and i'm also a person who tends to speak my mind, and that's not always appreciated. and jeff said he wanted the staff to feel free to speak out, and he really does. and even when we disagree with him and we think som