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Like this? Get AIDAILY, delivered to your inbox, every weekday. Subscribe to our newsletter at https://aidaily.us AI Proposal to "Refactor" U.S. Legal System Gains Momentum A Peter Thiel-backed entrepreneur suggests using AI to overhaul the U.S. legal framework, likening the process to "refactoring" code in software engineering. By analyzing vast legal data with NLP and AI models, dormant or redundant statutes could be flagged for review, streamlining regulations and reducing compliance burdens. Critics warn of potential risks, but proponents argue AI can assist, not replace, human oversight in simplifying legal complexities for modern governance. Amazon Unveils Nova AI Models to Compete with Adobe and Meta At its annual AWS conference, Amazon introduced Nova, a series of foundation AI models for text, image, and video generation, rivaling Adobe and Meta. The models promise improved speed, cost efficiency, and advanced capabilities like creating six-second videos with Nova Reel. Amazon also debuted its Canvas tool for image generation and announced upcoming multimodal AI functionalities. With plans for an enhanced Alexa and strategic partnerships, Amazon positions itself as a key player in generative AI. Google Launches Veo, Its Generative AI Video Model Google's Veo, a generative AI video model, is now available via its Vertex AI platform, enabling businesses to create 1080p videos from text or image prompts. Veo also integrates SynthID watermarks for content attribution. OpenAI lags with its Sora model as businesses increasingly adopt generative AI for revenue growth. Meta Reports AI Had Limited Impact on 2024 Elections Meta's Nick Clegg stated that generative AI had a modest influence on global elections in 2024, with Meta effectively countering disinformation using advanced tools. AI-generated deepfakes and misinformation were quickly exposed, but concerns remain about disinformation on other platforms like TikTok. Public distrust of AI in elections persists, though AI also enhanced voter education efforts.  AI-Powered Punching Bag Revolutionizes Home Fitness Growl, an AI-driven boxing trainer, combines augmented reality, 3D cameras, and advanced sensors to transform home workouts. Designed for precision and engagement, it analyzes form, measures impact, and offers real-time feedback through a projected coach interface. Growl delivers dynamic workouts tailored to user performance. Future updates promise deeper integration with wearables and interactive sparring. Music Industry Faces 25% Income Loss as AI Booms A global study by CISAC reveals that music sector workers could lose nearly 25% of income to generative AI by 2028. AI is projected to grow from a €3bn to €64bn market, enriching tech firms while reducing creators' earnings and opportunities. Policymakers, particularly in Australia and New Zealand, are urged to act to safeguard creators' rights and cultural assets.

El informe de recaudaciones de la CISAC revela que por primera vez que el sector digital se ha convertido en la mayor fuente de ingresos para los creadores gracias al crecimiento continuo del streaming por suscripción y a la firma de nuevos acuerdos por las sociedades, o a su renovación, superando así a la radio y la TV. Informe sobre las recaudaciones completo https://www.cisac.org/es/servicios/informes-y-estudios/informe-sobre-las-recaudaciones-mundiales-de-2023 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lascompositoras/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lascompositoras/support

El informe de recaudaciones de la CISAC revela que por primera vez que el sector digital se ha convertido en la mayor fuente de ingresos para los creadores gracias al crecimiento continuo del streaming por suscripción y a la firma de nuevos acuerdos por las sociedades, o a su renovación, superando así a la radio y la TV. Informe sobre las recaudaciones completo https://www.cisac.org/es/servicios/informes-y-estudios/informe-sobre-las-recaudaciones-mundiales-de-2023 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lascompositoras/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lascompositoras/support

As arrecadações globais da indústria da música vêm crescendo cada vez mais e atingiram um novo recorde de US$11,4 bilhões (R$60 bilhões) em 2022, de acordo com a organização comercial das sociedades de gestão coletiva CISAC. A impressionante marca reflete um crescimento de 28% em relação a 2021, quando as receitas das apresentações ao vivo e também as digitais ainda eram prejudicadas pelos efeitos negativos da pandemia. Com tantos festivais de música acontecendo no Brasil, trouxemos para o APP Cast o tema “Indústria da Música”. Esta indústria é gigantesca e se funde com o mercado publicitário, mas tem, é claro, muitas oportunidades e desafios para discutirmos. Por isso, convidamos Patrícia Palumbo, radialista, mãe e marinheira, que apresenta o Instrumental Sesc Brasil há 20 anos, faz curadoria e consultoria musical para a TV Cultura, a Casa Brasileira e o Itaú Cultural. Apresentação: Silvia Borges APP Casters: Martha Gucciardi, diretora de Diversidade e Inclusão da APP Brasil Gravação, montagem e publicação: Compasso Coolab

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week. On this edition, Spotify's plans to change the way it allocates revenues to individual tracks and catalogues each month, and the confirmation that digital is now the biggest driver of revenue for the song rights collecting societies. SECTION TIMES 01: Spotify (00:04:35) 02: CISAC (00:18:27) (Timings may be slightly different due to adverts) STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK • Spotify also in talks with industry to change track allocation process • Digital now biggest revenue generator for song right collecting societies, CISAC confirms ALSO MENTIONED • Hipgnosis vote shock: 83.2% of shareholders vote against continuation • Read CISAC's Global Collections Report 2023

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Join us for another episode of AI Proficiency: Turning Tomorrow into Today to hear a groundbreaking discussion with Julie George, Predoctoral Fellow at CISAC and HAI at Stanford University, and PhD Candidate of Government at Cornell University. Julie's work in academia inspires her to not only observe the symbiotic relationship between humans and AI, but to analyze it within a global context. Understanding the significance and implementation of these capabilities across different regions is key to furthering our ability to deploy them safely and ethically. Stay tuned to hear more about how this approach is also helping to remove the stigma associated with AI replacing human capabilities rather than aiding them. CDAO: https://www.ai.mil/  Tradewind AI: https://www.tradewindai.com/  Alethia Labs: https://alethialabs.org/  ATARC: https://atarc.org/

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Philip Taubman is a lecturer at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Before joining CISAC, Mr. Taubman worked at the New York Times as a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years, specializing in national security issues, including intelligence and defense policies and operations. His newest book 'In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz' is available now. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/americas-talking/support

The Hoover Institution and The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) host In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz - A Conversation with Condoleezza Rice and Philip Taubman on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 from 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PT. ABOUT THE BOOK The definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War. Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global problems was the leitmotif of George Pratt Shultz's life. No one at the highest levels of the United States government did it better or with greater consequence in the last half of the 20th century, often against withering resistance. His quiet, effective leadership altered the arc of history. While political, social, and cultural dynamics have changed profoundly since Shultz served at the commanding heights of American power in the 1970s and 1980s, his legacy and the lessons of his career have even greater meaning now that the Shultz brand of conservatism has been almost erased in the modern Republican Party. This book, from longtime New York Times Washington reporter Philip Taubman, restores the modest Shultz to his central place in American history. Taubman reveals Shultz's gift for forging relationships with people and then harnessing the rapport to address national and international challenges, under his motto "trust is the coin of the realm"—as well as his difficulty standing up for his principles, motivated by a powerful sense of loyalty that often trapped him in inaction. Based on exclusive access to Shultz's personal papers, housed in a sealed archive at the Hoover Institution, In the Nation's Service offers a remarkable insider account of the behind-the-scenes struggles of the statesman who played a pivotal role in unwinding the Cold War. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and its Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is also a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm.  From 2005 to 2009, Rice served as the sixty-sixth secretary of state of the United States, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. Rice also served as assistant to the president for National Security Affairs for President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first woman to hold this position. Philip Taubman is a lecturer at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Before joining CISAC, Mr. Taubman worked at the New York Times as a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years, specializing in national security issues and serving as Moscow bureau chief and Washington bureau chief. He is the author of The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb (2012) and Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage (2003). He is a Stanford graduate.

Jessica's journey -- what a ride!  Music change agent Jessica Powell shares her Roads Taken, ranging from following a now-ex boyfriend across countries to using her languages at CISAC and on a wild boar farm (!!) -- to Google London, Google Asia, and to her current AI and Stems startup, AudioShake.   And even that founding with her co-founder Luke Miner began as a "What If" exercise around bass lines and karaoke, before landing with Billy Mann and peermusic to experiment with AIs and stems to create a next-generation stem separation platform for artists and new creative technologies.  We ran into her at Music Tectonics' annual conference as AudioShake won the "Swimming with Narwhals" Tech Startup Pitch Competition, the latest in a recent series of wins for this new company. Guest: Jessica Powell, CEO and Co-Founder, AudioShake Jessica Powell is the CEO and co-founder of AudioShake, which uses AI to separate songs into instrumentals and stems so that they can be opened up for new opportunities in sync licensing, remixing, and emerging immersive, education, and social media formats. The company won Sony's Demixing Challenge, and was called the “cleanest stem separation tech” by DJ Mag. Powell spent over a decade at Google, where she sat on the company's management team, reporting into the CEO, and ran the company's global communications organization. She began her career at CISAC, the International Society of Authors and Composers, in Paris. She is also an author and essayist, whose work has have been published in the New York Times, TIME, WIRED, and elsewhere. Mentioned Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/themoku and https://twitter.com/AudioshakeAI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/audioshake/ and Website: https://audioshake.ai and https://indie.audioshake.ai Music Tectonics' Swimming with Narwhals Music Tech Startup Pitch Competition: https://www.musictectonics.com/pitchcompetition Billy Mann: https://www.billymann.com/ Mary Megan Peer and peermusic: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/mary-megan-peer-named-as-new-chief-executive-officer-of-peermusic-as-ralph-peer-ii-shifts-to-executive-chair/ Donovan's Season of the Witch: https://youtu.be/GU35oCHGhJ0 CISAC (International Confederation of the Societies of Authors and Composers): https://www.cisac.org/ Her book, The Big Disruption: A Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story - https://www.amazon.com/Big-Disruption-Jessica-Powell-ebook/dp/B07PK5S8D9/ Canadian Music podcast interview: https://www.canadianmusicianpodcast.com/episodes/audioshake-jessica-powell Webby Awards info: https://www.webbyawards.com/news/jessica-powell-co-founder-audioshake/ Magnetic Magazine interview:

Episode five of NucleCast features Dr. Brad Roberts, who has served as director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 2015. From 2009 to 2013, he was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy. In this role, he served as policy director of the Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review and Ballistic Missile Defense Review and led their implementation. Prior to entering government service, Dr. Roberts was a research fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, editor of The Washington Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Between leaving the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2013 and assuming his current responsibilities, Dr. Roberts was a consulting professor at Stanford University and William Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). While at CISAC, he authored a book entitled The Case for US Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century, which won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2016.

In this episode Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Associate Professor Shiri Krebs about cognitive biases inherent in targeting operations and what that means for compliance with the laws of armed conflict. The increased reliance on intelligence feeds from various remote sensors, and the fusion of these sensor feeds to make targeting decisions provides opportunity to entrench cultural and cognitive biases in armed conflict. Equally, the labels and interpretations ascribed to these sensor feeds impact the after action reviews, or fact finding or investigative processes that follow an engagement that results in civilian casualties. There have been many studies undertaken that demonstrate that data coming from machines is changes when it is interpreted by humans, and interpreted from that human's cognitive and cultural frame, but what is the impact of this kind of bias in the context of targeting operations and compliance with LOAC? Shiri is an Associate Professor T Deakin University's Law Faculty, as well as the Co-lead of the Law and Policy Theme in the Australian Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC).  In 2022 she was elected Chair of the Lieber Society on the Laws of Armed Conflict Chair (with the American Society of International Law), and she is an affiliated scholar at Stanford University's Centre for International Security and cooperation (CISAC). Associate Professor Krebs has written and published broadly on algorithmic bias and drone data vulnerabilities, data privacy, and human-machine interaction in technology-assisted legal decision-making, at the intersection of law, science and technology. She teaches the outcomes of her work in many fora – including to governments and militaries; and her paper, “The Effects of Visual Evidence on the Application of International Humanitarian Law: A behavioural approach”, was awarded the 2021 David D. Caron Prize, awarded by the American Society of International Law.Special thanks to Rosie Cavdarski for editing.Additional resources:Shiri Krebs, ‘Drone-Cinema, Data Practices, and the Narrative of IHL' (2022) 82(2) Heidelberg Journal of International Law (forthcoming August 2022). Shiri Krebs, ‘Predictive Technologies and Opaque Epistemology in Counter-Terrorism Decision-Making' in 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law (Kim Lane Scheppele and Arianna Vedaschi, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021), 199-221.Shiri Krebs, ‘The Invisible Frames Affecting Wartime Investigations: Legal Epistemology, Metaphors, and Cognitive Biases' in International Law's Invisible Frames (Andrea Bianchi and Moshe Hirsch, eds., Oxford University Press, 2021), 124-140. ( recently shortlisted for the Australian Legal Research Awards (Article/Chapter (ECR) Category)).Gavin Sullivan, 'Law, technology and data-driven security: infra-legalities as method assemblage, Journal of Law and Society, 2022Fleur Johns - Data detection and the redistribution of the sensible in international law, 2017Donna Haraway, 'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Question of Partial Perspective, Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 575-599.Harvard Implicit Bias Test:

On this week's episode, we honor the late Stimson Center co-founder Michael Krepon with an archived interview, featuring Lorely Umayam and former Ploughshares Fund Program Director Michelle Dover. They discuss the evolution of the nuclear policy field and how the practitioners should respond in the face of challenges. On Early Warning, Alex Hall is joined by Dr. Luis Rodriguez, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at CISAC, to discuss the 10th Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which is taking place this month at the UN.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Vael Gates: Risks from Advanced AI (June 2022), published by Vael Gates on June 14, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford HAI and CISAC. I recently gave a HAI Seminar Zoom talk, in which I lay out some of the basic arguments for existential risk from AI during the first 23m of the talk, after which I describe my research interviewing AI researchers and answer Q&A.I recommend the first 23m as a resource to send to people who are new to these arguments (the talk was aimed at computer science researchers, but is also accessible to the public). This is a pretty detailed, current as of June 2022, public-facing overview that's updated with April-May 2022 papers, and includes readings, funding, additional resources at the bottom of the page. An optional transcript of the first 23m is below; thanks to Jonathan Low for drafting it and Vaidehi Agarwalla for suggesting it. [Link to post on LessWrong] Zoom Talk Transcript Dr. Vael Gates, a HAI-CISAC postdoc at Stanford University, describes their work interviewing researchers about their perceptions of risks from current and future AI. The transcript below runs over the first 23 minutes of the talk, in which they introduce some recent AI developments, researcher timelines for AGI, and the case for existential risk from non-aligned AGI. The latter part of the talk focuses on Gates's preliminary research results, and audience Q&A. The transcript, which has been edited for clarity, is below. Dr. Gates's talk is available to watch in full on the Stanford HAI website, and on YouTube. My talk today is called “Researcher Perceptions of Current and Future AI”, though it could also be called “Researcher Perceptions of Risks from Advanced AI”, as my talk is actually focused on risk from advanced AI. The structure of this talk is as follows: I'm going to give some context for the study I did, I'll talk about the development of AI, the concept of AGI, and the alignment problem and existential risk. [Then I'll go on to the research methods I used in this study, some of the research questions I asked researchers, and the interim results, finishing with some concluding thoughts. We should have about 10-15 minutes of Q&A, if my timing is right.] Let's start with some context. Where are we in AI development? Here's some history from Wikipedia: we start with some precursors, then the birth of AI in 1952, symbolic AI, AI winter, a boom cycle, the second AI winter, and AI 1993-2011. Here we are in the deep learning paradigm, which is 2011 to the present, with AlexNet and the deep learning revolution. We have some components of the current paradigm that we wouldn't have necessarily expected in the 1950s. We have black box systems. We're using machine learning and neural networks. Compute (computing power) is very important; computing power, data, algorithmic advances, and some of these algorithmic advances are kind of aimed at scaling. That means there are methods that are very general that you can throw more compute and data into to get better behavior. We see Sutton's Bitter Lesson here, which is the idea that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective - by a large margin compared to human knowledge approaches that were used earlier on. Here's a quick comic to try and illustrate that lesson. In the early days of AIs, we used something like statistical learning, where you would know a lot about the domain and you would be very careful to use methods specific to that domain. These days there's an idea of stacking more layers, throwing more compute and data in, and you'll get ever more sophisticated behaviour. It's worth noting that we've been working on AI for less than 100 years and the current paradigm is around 10 years old, and that we've gotten pretty far in that time. H...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Vael Gates: Risks from Advanced AI (June 2022), published by Vael Gates on June 14, 2022 on LessWrong. I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford HAI and CISAC. I recently gave a HAI Seminar Zoom talk, in which I lay out some of the basic arguments for existential risk from AI during the first 23m of the talk, after which I describe my research interviewing AI researchers and answer Q&A.I recommend the first 23m as a resource to send to people who are new to these arguments (the talk was aimed at computer science researchers, but is also accessible to the public). This is a pretty detailed, current as of June 2022, public-facing overview that's updated with April-May 2022 papers, and includes readings, funding, additional resources at the bottom of the page. An optional transcript of the first 23m is below; thanks to Jonathan Low for drafting it and Vaidehi Agarwalla for suggesting it. [Link to post on the EA Forum] Zoom Talk Transcript Dr. Vael Gates, a HAI-CISAC postdoc at Stanford University, describes their work interviewing researchers about their perceptions of risks from current and future AI. The transcript below runs over the first 23 minutes of the talk, in which they introduce some recent AI developments, researcher timelines for AGI, and the case for existential risk from non-aligned AGI. The latter part of the talk focuses on Gates's preliminary research results, and audience Q&A. The transcript, which has been edited for clarity, is below. Dr. Gates's talk is available to watch in full on the Stanford HAI website, and on YouTube. My talk today is called “Researcher Perceptions of Current and Future AI”, though it could also be called “Researcher Perceptions of Risks from Advanced AI”, as my talk is actually focused on risk from advanced AI. The structure of this talk is as follows: I'm going to give some context for the study I did, I'll talk about the development of AI, the concept of AGI, and the alignment problem and existential risk. [Then I'll go on to the research methods I used in this study, some of the research questions I asked researchers, and the interim results, finishing with some concluding thoughts. We should have about 10-15 minutes of Q&A, if my timing is right.] Let's start with some context. Where are we in AI development? Here's some history from Wikipedia: we start with some precursors, then the birth of AI in 1952, symbolic AI, AI winter, a boom cycle, the second AI winter, and AI 1993-2011. Here we are in the deep learning paradigm, which is 2011 to the present, with AlexNet and the deep learning revolution. We have some components of the current paradigm that we wouldn't have necessarily expected in the 1950s. We have black box systems. We're using machine learning and neural networks. Compute (computing power) is very important; computing power, data, algorithmic advances, and some of these algorithmic advances are kind of aimed at scaling. That means there are methods that are very general that you can throw more compute and data into to get better behavior. We see Sutton's Bitter Lesson here, which is the idea that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective - by a large margin compared to human knowledge approaches that were used earlier on. Here's a quick comic to try and illustrate that lesson. In the early days of AIs, we used something like statistical learning, where you would know a lot about the domain and you would be very careful to use methods specific to that domain. These days there's an idea of stacking more layers, throwing more compute and data in, and you'll get ever more sophisticated behaviour. It's worth noting that we've been working on AI for less than 100 years and the current paradigm is around 10 years old, and that we've gotten pretty far in that time. However, some peo...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Vael Gates: Risks from Advanced AI (June 2022), published by Vael Gates on June 14, 2022 on LessWrong. I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford HAI and CISAC. I recently gave a HAI Seminar Zoom talk, in which I lay out some of the basic arguments for existential risk from AI during the first 23m of the talk, after which I describe my research interviewing AI researchers and answer Q&A.I recommend the first 23m as a resource to send to people who are new to these arguments (the talk was aimed at computer science researchers, but is also accessible to the public). This is a pretty detailed, current as of June 2022, public-facing overview that's updated with April-May 2022 papers, and includes readings, funding, additional resources at the bottom of the page. An optional transcript of the first 23m is below; thanks to Jonathan Low for drafting it and Vaidehi Agarwalla for suggesting it. [Link to post on the EA Forum] Zoom Talk Transcript Dr. Vael Gates, a HAI-CISAC postdoc at Stanford University, describes their work interviewing researchers about their perceptions of risks from current and future AI. The transcript below runs over the first 23 minutes of the talk, in which they introduce some recent AI developments, researcher timelines for AGI, and the case for existential risk from non-aligned AGI. The latter part of the talk focuses on Gates's preliminary research results, and audience Q&A. The transcript, which has been edited for clarity, is below. Dr. Gates's talk is available to watch in full on the Stanford HAI website, and on YouTube. My talk today is called “Researcher Perceptions of Current and Future AI”, though it could also be called “Researcher Perceptions of Risks from Advanced AI”, as my talk is actually focused on risk from advanced AI. The structure of this talk is as follows: I'm going to give some context for the study I did, I'll talk about the development of AI, the concept of AGI, and the alignment problem and existential risk. [Then I'll go on to the research methods I used in this study, some of the research questions I asked researchers, and the interim results, finishing with some concluding thoughts. We should have about 10-15 minutes of Q&A, if my timing is right.] Let's start with some context. Where are we in AI development? Here's some history from Wikipedia: we start with some precursors, then the birth of AI in 1952, symbolic AI, AI winter, a boom cycle, the second AI winter, and AI 1993-2011. Here we are in the deep learning paradigm, which is 2011 to the present, with AlexNet and the deep learning revolution. We have some components of the current paradigm that we wouldn't have necessarily expected in the 1950s. We have black box systems. We're using machine learning and neural networks. Compute (computing power) is very important; computing power, data, algorithmic advances, and some of these algorithmic advances are kind of aimed at scaling. That means there are methods that are very general that you can throw more compute and data into to get better behavior. We see Sutton's Bitter Lesson here, which is the idea that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective - by a large margin compared to human knowledge approaches that were used earlier on. Here's a quick comic to try and illustrate that lesson. In the early days of AIs, we used something like statistical learning, where you would know a lot about the domain and you would be very careful to use methods specific to that domain. These days there's an idea of stacking more layers, throwing more compute and data in, and you'll get ever more sophisticated behaviour. It's worth noting that we've been working on AI for less than 100 years and the current paradigm is around 10 years old, and that we've gotten pretty far in that time. However, some peo...

Andrea Czapary Martin, CEO of PRS for Music, which represents the rights of over 160,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers in the UK and around the world. The last few years have seen income in the music industry fluctuate wildly due to the impact of coronavirus – and PRS for Music has just released its 2021 results, including how much money it has collected and has paid out to songwriters during that period of disruption. So we spoke to Andrea about those results, and also about the future of music being used in new technology spaces – like, you guessed it – the metaverse. One quick note about the Ukraine campaign that Andrea mentions – she'd like to make it clear that this is a CISAC initiative that PRS for Music supports – and you can read about – and support – it here: cisac.org/Newsroom/news-releases/cisac-solidarity-fund-ukraine PRS for Music: prsformusic.com -------

This week we are joined by Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar, CISAC and Hank J. Holland Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University – and author of the book Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons. Herb shares his deep expertise in cyber policy and security to shed light on key questions that should be on everyone's mind, such as “Why are innovation and cybersecurity opposites” and “Why are we always behind in cybersecurity?”. He also breaks down why complexity is the enemy of security, cyber war vs nuclear war, three roads to ruin, and the role of a Chief Luddite Officer. Prepare for your mind to be blown! Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation Dr. Herb Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. His research interests relate broadly to policy-related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace, and he is particularly interested in the use of offensive operations in cyberspace as instruments of national policy and in the security dimensions of information warfare and influence operations on national security. In addition to his positions at Stanford University, he is Chief Scientist, Emeritus for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he served from 1990 through 2014 as study director of major projects on public policy and information technology, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Senior Fellow in Cybersecurity (not in residence) at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies in the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; and a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In 2016, he served on President Obama's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Prior to his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986-1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e176

On the podcast this week, Canadian Musician Editor-in-Chief Mike Raine is joined by Audioshake Co-Founder and CEO Jessica Powell. Audioshake is a new company that's using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to “demix” songs, essentially taking a finished track and deconstructing it into high-quality vocal and instrumental stems that can be used for sync licensing, remixing, and more. Powell is a very interesting and accomplished person in the business and tech world. She began her career in the world of music rights working for CISAC and eventually went on to the high-profile position of VP of Communications for Google. She is also a critically-acclaimed author and a lifestyle, business, and tech columnist for the New York Times, Fast Company, Wired, and more. Launched in July 2021, by musicians and former engineers and AI researchers from Google, YouTube, and Apple, AudioShake counts all three major label groups and several top publishers and indie labels among its customers. The company won Sony's 2021 Demixing Challenge, beating out entrants from big tech companies and research institutes. AudioShake's tech was also recently used by Green Day to recreate their lost masters to the song “2000 Light Years Away” so that fans could play along with the band on TikTok. Learn more at audioshake.ai and indie.audioshake.ai

In late 2021, the leader of Clan del Golfo (The Urabeños) Dairo Antonio Úsuga, aka "Otoniel", was captured by the Colombian police. President Iván Duque said that the arrest was only matched by the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s. Over the course of two episodes we look at the birth of Clan del Golfo out of the ashes of the right-wing paramilitary movement in Colombia. We'll explore their involvement in illicit markets such as drug trafficking, illegal mining, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and how they use extreme violence and targeted assassinations to spread fear. So who is Otoniel? Well, a prominent drug trafficker, Daniel "El Loco" Barrera, after being captured by Colombian police, warned them that about Otoniel, repeatedly saying..."He's an animal". Speakers: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-liliana-olaya-castro-211ab261/ (Angela Olaya), the Co-founder and Senior Researcher at the Conflict Responses Foundation in Colombia. https://twitter.com/tobymuse?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Toby Muse), Foreign Correspondent, documentary filmmaker and author of the book Kilo: Life and Death inside the secret world of the cocaine cartels. https://twitter.com/jmantillaba?lang=en (Jorge Mantilla), the Director of Conflict Dynamics and Organized Violence, Ideas for Peace Foundation and a member of the https://globalinitiative.net/profile/jorge-mantilla/ (GI network) Related Links: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1117558/kilo/9781529103410.html (Toby Muse - Kilo: Life and Death inside the secret world of the cocaine cartels) https://insightcrime.org/colombia-organized-crime-news/dario-antonio-usuga-otoniel/ (Insight Crime - Dairo Antonio Usuga "Otoniel" Profile) https://colombiareports.com/agc-gulf-clan/ (Colombia Reports - Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) / Gulf Clan) https://insightcrime.org/colombia-organized-crime-news/auc-profile/ (Insight Crime - AUC Profile) https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/popular-liberation-army#highlight_text_16057 (Mapping Militants, CISAC, Stanford) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShkCM-aMXI (El Semana - Daniel "El Loco" Barrera arrested) https://www.hrw.org/report/2010/02/03/paramilitaries-heirs/new-face-violence-colombia (Paramilitaries' Heirs: The New Face of Violence in Colombia - Human Rights Watch) https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/kolumbien/11089-20150116.pdf (The Last Man Standing? The Rise of the Urabenos - Jeremy McDermott) https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-colombia-sexcrimes-idUKKBN0NI1O120150427 (Reuters - Virgins recruited as sex slaves for Colombian drug lords - reports) Full Reading List to be provided soon. 

All eyes are on Ukraine (including ours). Steven Pifer, a William J. Perry Research Fellow at CISAC and former ambassador to Ukraine, joins co-host Tom Collina to discuss Putin's motivations for Ukraine and more. On Early Warning, co-host Michelle Dover and veteran foreign policy journalist Laura Rozen examine the US-Iran talks on salvaging the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in Vienna. Rozen compares where the parties are now compared to June and shares what she is especially watching out for.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the 10.7% (or 775 million euros) drop in royalties collected by the song right collecting societies across the world as a result of COVID-19 in 2020, and the leaked UK government report that suggests that COVID passports might be counterproductive. SECTION TIMES 01: CISAC stats (00:03:39) 02: COVID Passports (00:20:50) (Timings may be slightly different due to adverts) STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK • COVID caused 775 million euro drop in song royalty collections in 2020, CISAC confirms • Leaked government report warns that COVID passports could drive up infections ALSO MENTIONED • Dave Grohl comments on Nirvana baby lawsuit: “He's got a Nevermind tattoo. I don't” MORE FROM CMU • Buy MMF and CMU Insights' Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon • Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin

September 11th 2001, will always be remembered as an infamous date in US and global history. Twenty years ago, the world held its breath as the events in New York and Washington unfolded. The terrorist attacks perpetrated by Al-Qaeda that day were the bloodiest ever seen on American soil, launching the US Government's global "war on terror". The country increased the pressure and started military operations against terrorist groups, and states that were sheltering them, and significantly changed its policymaking with regards to national security.As part of this, the US intervened in Afghanistan and launched what became the longest sustained military campaign in US history,  ending only with the withdrawal of US troops and an almost instant return to power of the Taliban in August 2021.  In this episode, Lucinda Creighton is joined by Martha Crenshaw, a senior fellow at CISAC and FSI and a professor of political science by courtesy at Stanford to discuss the legacy of 9/11 and the war on terrorism 20 years later. 

Do you look at your stems when recording in the studio as a revenue stream, or just layers of your song as a whole? Audioshake has created the AI technology, which is designed to help the rightsholder to the music to be able to create professional stems without having to go back into the studio. This is perfect for the artist looking to create not only vocal tracks but also segmented files that can be used for music in film and television aspects, without the time and cost of having to go back into the studio to edit and mix the parts needed. Stems can make the difference in setting up a scene in a film or series, and this program provides the tools to do it right. This literally can take the music down to the molecular level if need be. The idea of creating Audioshake came from Co-Founder and CEO Jessica Powell and her partners wanting to sing Karaoke while over in Japan. Still, their preferred choice of music was Punk, and there weren't any tracks available to that specific genre of music. Also, they were discovering that they were karaoking to really cheesy sub-standard Midi versions that weren't close to the real thing, which they felt took away from experience. Out of those experiences, Audioshake has created the AI technology that will create stems and instrumentals from songs in minutes. Why does this matter? Old songs (think: mono-track) cannot be broken up Analog multi-track: tapes are often damaged or lost Shift to digital in the 90s: stems got lost in the shuffle Contemporary: everything should have stems, but sometimes they aren't delivered, or in some cases, songs are recorded on phones People have been working in the field of sound separation for a long time:  However, quality hasn't historically been good enough to use the stems commercially. Recent advances in A.I. have really helped it take off. Facebook, Deezer, and several academic researchers are working on the problem. Audioshake has the highest quality items in the world and the greatest breadth: vocals, drums, bass, guitar, and others...and we're working on other instruments as well. Audioshake offers the possibility to help artists and rights holders open up their songs for new uses -- instrumentals for sync licensing, stems for re-mixes, removing bleed from live recordings, creating stems for spatial audio, etc.  Stems have been used in re-mixes, songwriting camps, movies, documentaries, and commercials. Their company also has an on-demand platform for music labels and publishers who need to create large volumes of stems, and it also provides stem storage.  This program is about helping artists make more money from their work. Audioshake wanted to build something for the industry--not a generally available consumer technology that would allow anyone to pirate artists' work. Jessica Powell is the co-founder and CEO of Audioshake, an AI technology that creates professional-quality stems and instrumentals from songs. She has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry. She is a former Vice President of Google, but she got her start in music at CISAC, the international author's rights organization. She is also the author of the best-selling book, The Big Disruption, and writes regularly for the New York Times, TIME magazine, and other publications.  www.audioshake.ai The Business Side of Music ™ Lotta Dogs Productions LLC   Co-Produced and Hosted (by the guy who has a face for podcasting):  Bob Bender Co-Producer, Creator, and Technical Advisor (the man behind the curtain):  Tom Sabella Director of Video and Continuity (the brains of the entire operation): Deborah Halle Audio/Video Editor Mark Sabella Midnight Express Studio  Olian, NY Marketing and Social Media: Kaitlin Fritts Executive Assistant to Bob and Tom (the one who keeps us on track and our schedules straight) Tammy Kowalski All Around Problem Solver: Connie Ribas Recorded at: The Bunker in Franklin, TN (except during the Covid 19 pandemic, then it's pretty much done VIA Skype or over the phone, with the exception for those fearless enough to come to Bob Bender's living room… and there are a few). Mixed and Mastered at Music Dog Studios in Nashville, TN Production Sound Design: Keith Stark Voice Over and Promo: Lisa Fuson Special Thanks to Tom Sabella and Traci Snow for producing and hosting over 100 episodes of the original “Business Side of Music” podcast and trusting us to carry on their legacy.   Website: Sponsorship information  Interview submission

An excerpt from "The Pentagon and Climate Change," a speaker event held on 12/9 featuring Boston University's Neta C. Crawford, hosted by the CISAC at the Freeman Spogli Institute. Details at https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/pentagon-and-climate-change

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including global collecting society grouping CISAC's positive revenue stats for 2019 and very gloomy predictions for 2020, and the news that Harry Styles has invested in a new arena venue in Manchester. SECTION TIMES 01: CISAC figures (00:04:45) 02: Harry Styles (00:20:16) (Timings may be slightly different due to adverts) STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK • Song right societies saw collections grow 8.4% in 2019, but fear a 35% drop in 2020 due to COVID (https://completemusicupdate.com/article/song-right-societies-saw-collections-grow-8-4-in-2019-but-fear-a-35-drop-in-2020-due-to-covid/) • Harry Styles invests in new Manchester arena Co-op Live (https://completemusicupdate.com/article/harry-styles-invests-in-new-manchester-arena-co-op-live/) ALSO MENTIONED • Spotify boss discusses price rise strategies in latest investor report (https://completemusicupdate.com/article/spotify-boss-discusses-price-rise-strategies-in-latest-investor-report/) • US musicians group calls for cent-per-stream payouts in Justice At Spotify campaign (https://completemusicupdate.com/article/us-musicians-group-calls-for-cent-per-stream-payouts-in-justice-at-spotify-campaign/) MORE FROM CMU • Book your place on CMU’s end of year webinars (https://cmuinsights.com/webinars/) • Buy the new Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon (https://amzn.to/38kwzlb) • Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin (https://completemusicupdate.com/signup/)

Recentemente, a luta pelos direitos de execução pública de músicas ganhou as páginas principais de veículos de todo o Brasil, quando a cantora Anitta, em uma live, discutiu com o deputado Felipe Carreras do PSB-PE, que propôs uma emenda a Medida Provisória 948 determinando que os direitos de execução pública deveriam ser pagos pelos artistas e intérpretes e não mais pelos produtores do evento. Essa foi somente uma de insistentes tentativas de afetar os direitos de execução pública. Para debater por que essas tentativas de mudanças sem debate se multiplicam historicamente no Congresso e o que pode vir por aí, o convidado é o Advogado, Presidente da Comissão de Direitos Autorais da OAB e Vice-Presidente do Comitê Jurídico da Cisac, Sidney Sanches.

Neste episódio, recebemos novamente Marcelo Castello Branco, CEO da UBC (União Brasileira dos Compositores) e também Chairman da CISAC, a Confederação Internacional de Sociedades de Autores e Compositores, para debater os primeiros impactos da pandemia do Coronavírus no recolhimento e pagamento pelo ECAD da Execução Pública de música, os primeiros sinais de como lançamentos de música em streaming serão afetados, as primeiras ações das gravadoras, distribuidoras, artistas e sociedades que distribuem esses direitos, e muito mais. Não deixe de nos contar o que pensa dos episódios: conecte-se conosco pelo nosso Instagram e sugira temas também que gostaria de ver ou dúvidas que tenha: https://www.instagram.com/fastforwardpodcast/

In our first episode of the new year, Zach Clayton '20 (former Cedro RA!) joins Ken Der on the Relatively Round Table to talk about his lessons and experiences during his summer in Indonesia and fall quarter in Santiago, Chile. Plus, Darlene Franklin attends "The Strike on Qassem Soleimani: Implications for Iran, the Middle East and the World," a panel discussion held Friday, January 10 at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. More details on the event can be found at https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/strike-qassem-soleimani-implications-iran-middle-east-and-world Special thanks to the Freeman Spogli Institute for letting the KZSU News Team record audio of their event!

O mercado latino de música, em especial o Brasil, está no centro das atenções do mundo inteiro na Era do Streaming. Pudera: de acordo com o relatório da IFPI de 2019, o maior crescimento de mercado foi o da América Latina, com 16,8% em 2018 em relação a 2017. O Brasil foi o campeão na região, com 15,4%, o maior crescimento registrado. No entanto, o perfil de audiências brasileiras, ainda que cada vez mais abertas à música latina, continua sendo um desafio para artistas de países vizinhos. Da mesma forma, brasileiros ainda tem muito o que aprender para de fato estourarem música nesses países. Do histórico do diálogo desses mercados ao projeto latino-americano de Anitta, do primórdios do Reggaeton com Daddy Yankee ao estouro mundial com Maluma e J. Balvin, da simpatia de países como a Argentina à música brasileira ao U.S. Latin, o principal mercado da região, e mais as oportunidades para artistas brasileiros na América Latina e o funcionamento do Latin Grammy Awards. Tudo isso analisado com o nosso convidado mais que especial, possivelmente quem mais entende do tema no Brasil: Marcelo Castello Branco, CEO da UBC (União Brasileira dos Compositores), Membro do Comitê de Indicações e Governança do Latin Grammy Awards e Board Member da CISAC. ************** Nota especial: o próximo programa tratará de um tema delicado e bastante presente no mercado da música - a Saúde Mental - tanto de quem trabalha no mercado quanto de artistas. Se você tem uma história que gostaria de compartilhar e lêssemos no ar e debatêssemos, por favor, envie e-mail com uma narrativa dela para fastforwardpod@gmail.com. O seu sigilo e anonimato serão totais, caso assim deseje.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last seven days, including CISAC's expulsion of Spanish collecting society SGAE, the RIAA’s latest moves against piracy sites, and how Richard Ashcroft reclaimed his most famous song from the Rolling Stones. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

July 2017: Dr. Henry Kissinger said that President Nixon “created a set of international policies whose main outlines survive to this day.” One of the most important is triangulation; by improving relations with China, the U.S. carved out favorable negotiating positions with the Soviet Union — while improving relations with both countries. Is the concept of triangulation between China, Russia and the U.S. still relevant in today’s world, and what can Americans expect the Trump administration’s policies toward Russia to be? Participants: Karl Eikenberry is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow, Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative and faculty member at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. He is a Stanford University Professor of Practice, and an affiliate at the FSI Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, Center for International Security Cooperation and The Europe Center. Prior to his arrival at Stanford, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 2009 until July 2011, where he led the civilian surge directed by President Obama to reverse insurgent momentum and set the conditions for transition to full Afghan sovereignty. Thomas Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC Fellow and was the inaugural Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He was the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford during January to December 2009. From May 2005 through December 2008, he served as the first deputy director of national intelligence for analysis and, concurrently, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council. He served previously as assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (2004–2005), principal deputy assistant secretary (2001–2003), deputy assistant secretary for analysis (1994–2000), director of the Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific (1989–1994), and chief of the China Division (1986–1989). David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, a professor of political science, and an FSI senior fellow. He was co-director of CISAC from 1991 to 1997, and director of FSI from 1998 to 2003. His research focuses on the international history of nuclear weapons, on science and technology in the Soviet Union, and on the relationship between international history and international relations theory. His book Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Yale University Press, 1994) was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 11 best books of 1994, and it won the Vucinich and Shulman prizes of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Kathryn Stoner, Moderator, is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, as well as (since 2010) the Faculty Director of the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies at Stanford University. She teaches in the Department of Political Science at Stanford, and in the Program on International Relations, as well as in the Ford Dorsey Program. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2004, she was on the faculty at Princeton University for nine years, jointly appointed to the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs. The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Situated on nine rolling acres in Yorba Linda, California, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum offers visitors an insider’s glimpse into the events, people and world that shaped, and were shaped by, the 37th President.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including new stats on the billions in royalties the songwriting industry is bringing in around the world, Ryanair and YouTube's new dalliances with ticketing, and new saviour of the record business UnitedMasters. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

In 1972, President Nixon famously visited China, moving away from a bilateral relationship with the Soviet Union and toward a more inclusive global conversation. Could the United States enhance its negotiating position with Russia today by improving relations with China? Experts from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) convened at the Nixon Foundation to discuss relations between these three countries. Are Russia and China building a relationship in opposition to the United States? How important are relations between these three countries? How has the rise of populism and autocracy changed the relationship? FSI deputy director and senior fellow Kathryn Stoner asks these questions and more to the panel: FSI senior fellow David Holloway, the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at CISAC; Thomas Fingar, a Shorenstein APARC fellow; and Karl Eikenberry, the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Shorenstein APARC. A video of the panel can also be viewed at http://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/holloway-us-china-and-russia.

In 1972, President Nixon famously visited China, moving away from a bilateral relationship with the Soviet Union and toward a more inclusive global conversation. Could the United States enhance its negotiating position with Russia today by improving relations with China? Experts from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) convened at the Nixon Foundation to discuss relations between these three countries. Are Russia and China building a relationship in opposition to the United States? How important are relations between these three countries? How has the rise of populism and autocracy changed the relationship? FSI deputy director and senior fellow Kathryn Stoner asks these questions and more to the panel: FSI senior fellow David Holloway, the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at CISAC; Thomas Fingar, a Shorenstein APARC fellow; and Karl Eikenberry, the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Shorenstein APARC. A video of the panel can also be viewed at http://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/holloway-us-china-and-russia.

North Korea's nuclear capabilities are growing. What's the rest of the world to do? APARC's Gi-Wook Shin and Kathleen Stephens, also the former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, are joined by the Wilson Center's James Person and CISAC visiting fellow Katharina Zellweger.

North Korea's nuclear capabilities are growing. What's the rest of the world to do? APARC's Gi-Wook Shin and Kathleen Stephens, also the former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, are joined by the Wilson Center's James Person and CISAC visiting fellow Katharina Zellweger.

The greatest dangers to your organization may come from the inside. Security expert Matthew Bunn joins CISAC's Amy Zegart and Scott Sagan to explain.

The greatest dangers to your organization may come from the inside. Security expert Matthew Bunn joins CISAC's Amy Zegart and Scott Sagan to explain.

“Ma näen paljudes riikides rahulolu oma olukorraga. Arvatakse, et “võiks ju rohkem raha teenida, kuid üldiselt on riik valmis, ja nüüd me hakkame siin piirama igasuguseid asju“. Ja ma soovin, et meil selline stagnatsioon ei tuleks peale.” Meie 25. saatekülaliseks on Eesti Vabariigi neljas president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, kes alates 2017. aasta algusest töötab külalisteadurina Stanfordi ülikoolis Californias, Freeman Spogli nimelises rahvusvaheliste uuringute instituudis (FSI), mis on osa ülikooli rahvusvahelise koostöö ja turbekeskusest (CISAC). Vestlus toimus otsesalvestusena Stanfordi ülikooli raamatukogus, ning publikuks olid kohalikud San Francisco piirkonnas elavad eestlased. Veerand sajandiga on väikesest tundmatust Eestist saanud arvestatav ning tunnustatud rahvusvaheline partner. Üha enam inimesi teab Eestit meie tehnoloogilise arengu, avalike e-teenuste, ning digitaalse ühiskonna tõttu, mis teeb Eesti suuremaks kui me tegelikult oleme, ning loob uusi võimalusi. President Ilves on olnud selle protsessi üks vedureid, nii kodumaal uusi ideid pakkudes ja rakendades, kui ülemaailmselt Eestit tutvustades. Selles podcastis räägime Toomas Hendrik Ilvesega tema isiklikust loost veidi teise nurga alt, mis on lugu uudishimust, pühendumusest ning võimalustest, mis pani ta Eestit puudutava uudisvoo keskmesse ning tegi temast inimese, kes aitas Eesti maailmakaardile.  Tema ellu mahub rohkelt lugusid ning erinevaid eluetappe, ja nii räägimegi:  Kuidas muutis koolilapsena matemaatika ning arvutiõpetuse eriprogrammis osalemine tema arusaamist maailmast? Miks oli 1960-70ndate Eesti luule tema jaoks huvitavam kui Lääne luule? Kui palju ümbritses teda 1980ndate alguses inimesi, kes uskusid, et Eesti võib kunagi vabaks saada? Millised olid muljed Eestist tema esimesel visiidil 1984.aastal? Miks oli tema töö Raadio Vaba Euroopas üks põnevamaid aegu tema elus? Kuidas jõudsid tema abiga uudised nõukogude Eestist maailmameedia esilehtedele? Mida ta õppis president Merilt? Kuidas ta kirjeldab Eesti Vabariigi 1990ndaid – esimest kümnendit taas vaba riigina? Kui kaugel on Eesti sellest, mis näeb välja ja käitub nii, nagu poleks okupatsiooni kunagi olnudki? Mida saab Eesti teha selle jaoks, et meie nälg parema elukorralduse, parema hariduse ning muu järgi ei sumbuks meid ümbritsevate murepilvede sisse? Mis saavad olema 21.sajandi võtmetähtsusega otsused, mida riigid peavad tegema, et infoühiskonnad saaksid turvaliselt edasi areneda? Miks on IT õigus ning tehisintellekt tulevikuvaldkonnad, millele Eesti noored võiksid tähelepanu pöörata? Milline on president Ilvese soov Eesti 100. sünnipäevaks? Saade on salvestatud 18. mail 2017. aastal üle Stanfordi ülikooli raamatukogus. Head kuulamist! Podcasti taustamuusika: Martin Kuuskmann, Tõnu Kõrvits “Puudutus”. Kõik õigused kaitstud.

Meie 25. saatekülaliseks on Eesti Vabariigi neljas president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, kes alates 2017. aasta algusest töötab külalisteadurina Stanfordi ülikoolis Californias, Freeman Spogli nimelises rahvusvaheliste uuringute instituudis (FSI), mis on osa ülikooli rahvusvahelise koostöö ja turbekeskusest (CISAC). Vestlus toimus otsesalvestusena Stanfordi ülikooli raamatukogus, kus publikuks olid kohalikud San Francisco piirkonnas elavad eestlased. Veerand sajandiga on väikesest tundmatust Eestist saanud arvestatav ning tunnustatud rahvusvaheline partner. Üha enam inimesi teab Eestit meie tehnoloogilise arengu, avalike e-teenuste, ning digitaalse ühiskonna tõttu, mis teeb Eesti suuremaks kui me tegelikult oleme, ning loob uusi võimalusi. President Ilves on olnud selle protsessi üks vedureid, nii kodumaal uusi ideid pakkudes ja rakendades, kui ülemaailmselt Eestit tutvustades. Selles podcast'is räägime Toomas Hendrik Ilvesega tema isiklikust loost veidi teise nurga alt, mis on lugu uudishimust, pühendumusest ning võimalustest, mis pani ta Eestit puudutava uudisvoo keskmesse ning tegi temast inimese, kes aitas Eesti maailmakaardile. Tema ellu mahub rohkelt lugusid ning erinevaid eluetappe. Selles episoodis räägime Kuidas muutis koolilapsena matemaatika ning arvutiõpetuse eriprogrammis osalemine tema arusaamist maailmast? Miks oli 1960–70ndate Eesti luule tema jaoks huvitavam kui Lääne luule? Kui palju ümbritses teda 1980ndate alguses inimesi, kes uskusid, et Eesti võib kunagi vabaks saada? Millised olid muljed Eestist tema esimesel visiidil 1984. aastal? Miks oli tema töö Raadio Vaba Euroopas üks põnevamaid aegu tema elus? Kuidas jõudsid tema abiga uudised nõukogude Eestist maailmameedia esilehtedele? Mida ta õppis president Merilt? Kuidas ta kirjeldab Eesti Vabariigi 1990ndaid – esimest kümnendit taas vaba riigina? Kui kaugel on Eesti sellest, mis näeb välja ja käitub nii, nagu poleks okupatsiooni kunagi olnudki? Mida saab Eesti teha selle jaoks, et meie nälg parema elukorralduse, parema hariduse ning muu järgi ei sumbuks meid ümbritsevate murepilvede sisse? Mis saavad olema 21.sajandi võtmetähtsusega otsused, mida riigid peavad tegema, et infoühiskonnad saaksid turvaliselt edasi areneda? Miks on IT õigus ning tehisintellekt tulevikuvaldkonnad, millele Eesti noored võiksid tähelepanu pöörata? Milline on president Ilvese soov Eesti 100 sünnipäevaks? Liitu uudiskirjaga www.globaalsedeestlased.org, et uus saade jõuaks iga nädal sinu postkasti!

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is a visiting faculty member at CISAC and an associate professor and the Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at the Stanford Law School, where he teaches and writes about administrative, criminal, and international law.