《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.08.24☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める☆PBS News Hour
■今日の動画：PBS News Hour August 23, 2024
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[06:23] LISA DESJARDINS: The mother of Lexi Rubio described the day her daughter was killed in the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
KIMBERLY MATA-RUBIO: She wears a St. Mary's sweatshirt and a smile that lights up the room. Thirty minutes later, a gunman murders her, 18 classmates and two teachers.
[** St. Mary's sweatshirt = see: https://www.stmarytx.edu/2022/lexi-scholarship/ ]
[13:31] Texas and 15 other Republican-led states file the lawsuit today to end a federal program that gives immigrants who are married to American citizens a path to citizenship. They allege that the Biden administration created the policy for blatant political purposes. The program, which started on Monday, allows spouses without current legal status to apply for what's called parole in place. That means they can stay in the U.S. to apply for a green card and eventually citizenship, rather than having to return to their home country first. About 500,000 people could be eligible to take part, but Republicans say it's a form of amnesty for those who have broken the law.
[21:23] I think the point that Powell was trying to make this morning is that officials are coming at this with quite a bit of humility, having learned those lessons pretty recently. He even had a clever line about sort of looking out onto the room and seeing many people who had been on the good ship transitory with them, that he recognized some of his old shipmates. These are a lot of people who are still finding their way to figure out a very uncertain economy that continues to surprise them.
[22:17] RACHEL SIEGEL: Well, we have heard from President Trump talking about this for days now. He falsely said that the Democrats had manipulated the data, that it was all part of this plan to juice the numbers right before Election Day.
[22:32] even though the Fed tries incredibly hard to stay out of politics, to keep their decisions from being influenced by the political calendar, they don't operate in a vacuum. And they are steering an economy that is going to be influenced in many ways by whoever wins this election. Powell has shown that he is quite steadfast in just cutting through all of that.
[31:54] I think they're exhausted by all the negativity and the hate and the heaviness, and they want to be joyful in solving the country's problems, and so over four days, whereas in Milwaukee, every night I felt like when we left the set, I was -- like a weighted blanket.
[39:51] Donald Trump, I can't tell you what his policies are, other than drill, baby drill, and tax cut. For whom, I don't know, maybe an extension of the Trump tax cuts, which helped -- benefited the folks at the top -- upper end of the income scale.
[42:01] David Brooks, Jonathan Capehart, always great to see you. JONATHAN CAPEHART: Great to see you. AMNA NAWAZ: Welcome back to town. Get some rest. JONATHAN CAPEHART: Oh, you better believe it.
[43:22] PAUL SOLMAN: Now, we have heard it before, as when the so-called Godfather of A.I., Geoffrey Hinton, warned Geoff Bennett last spring. GEOFFREY HINTON, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer: The machines taking over is a threat for everybody. It's a threat for the Chinese and for the Americans and for the Europeans, just like a global nuclear war was.
[** see: https://note.com/wgc888/n/n72d8bdb150f4#d1a8498a-5eaa-4ef8-b583-6fa96e19dfe8 ]
[43:38] PAUL SOLMAN: And more than a century ago, the Czech play "R.U.R.," Rossum's Universal Robots, from which the word robot comes, dramatized the warning. And since 1921 -- that's more than 100 years ago -- people have been imagining that the robots will become sentient and destroy us.
[** see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. ]
[44:31] On the other hand, robots will be everywhere soon enough, as mass production drives down their cost. So will they soon turn against us? JERRY KAPLAN: I got news for you. There's no they there. They don't want anything. They don't need anything. We design and build these things to our own specifications.
[44:54] PAUL SOLMAN: Kaplan thinks what humans do with A.I. is much scarier than A.I. on its own, create super viruses, mega drones, God knows what else. But whodunit aside, the big question still is, will A.I. bring doomsday?
[45:59] ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY: Things have gone a bit worse than hoped for. And, to be clear, the sting at the end of this is A.I. gets smarter than us, is poorly controlled, and probably humanity becomes collateral damage to its own expansion.
[47:18] PAUL SOLMAN: I'm afraid we're all going to be rolling the dice on that. And I'm worried that in your answer, you're saying there's something like a 30 percent chance that A.I., artificial intelligence, will destroy humanity. Shouldn't I be scared?
AMICA: Your concern is valid, Paul. The 30 percent isn't a direct prediction, but a cautious nod to the uncertainties and ethical dilemmas of handling powerful technology.
[48:33] REID HOFFMAN: We have a portfolio risk. We have climate change as a possibility. We have pandemic as a possibility. We have nuclear war as a possibility. We have asteroids as a possibility. We have human world war as a possibility. We have all of these existential risks.
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