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We're 30 minutes from the beginning of RE:WIRED—a series of virtual conversations about humanity's biggest bets. You can register and watch at the link, but we'll be live tweeting today's events below: wired.trib.al/Rc5MO3q #REWIRED2021

And RE:WIRED has begun! Register and watch live right here (Don't worry, it's free!): wired.trib.al/Rc5MO3q #REWIRED2021

Up next, a defining question for the future of humanity with @kaifulee and @yokymatsuoka: What should the future of AI look like? Watch live right here: wired.trib.al/Rc5MO3q #REWIRED2021

Kai Fu Lee shares his optimism about AI in health care, but says there will still be challenges in the short term. "I actually don't see much of the downside of AI in healthcare. It's one of the few win-wins." - @kaifulee

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Kai-Fu Lee says we need to move away from "explain the black box perfectly or we can't use it." If AI were easily explainable, it wouldn't be so powerful.

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Yoky Matsuoka, cofounder of Google X, former CTO of Nest, and neurorobotics researcher, is live now. Watch right here: wired.trib.al/Rc5MO3q #REWIRED2021

Yoky Matsuoka talks about how AI can not only provide health care data and better predictive measures, but allow people to have increased independence without constant care.

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Yoky Matsuoka reminds us it's okay to delegate—whether that's with family or friends or AI itself. "It's okay to get help from a human and tech combination. It's not scary and it can help make things better."

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Is AI ready to takeover all home tasks? Matsuoka says she believes humans should still be the gatekeepers, but AI can be helpful in process and suggestions.

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Next up: Jony Ive speaks to Anna Wintour about his new endeavors, priorities, and the very nature of creativity, ideas, and the future of design as he sees it.

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Watch Jony Ive and Anna Wintour beginning now at RE:WIRED right here: wired.trib.al/Rc5MO3q #REWIRED2021

"I struggled to get my head around, with iPod, that it's been 20 years," says Jony Ive. "What the iPod really marked was the beginning of creating far more specific products and devices." wired.trib.al/Rc5MO3q #REWIRED2021

Jony Ive discusses how the arrival of the wearable marks technology becoming more personal and intimate. The next phase: tech that "disappears beneath our skin."

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On the late Steve Jobs, "As I think about him, my sense of him and what his contribution truly was, has grown and evolved," says Ive. "I've never met anyone more truly curious, more inquisitive, than Steve."

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"If you create with love and genuine care, it's a way of expressing our gratitude for the species," says Ive, when asked about his company's name LoveFrom,

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"It's so good in so many ways, we make the mistake of using it as a surrogate for actual communication." -Jony Ive on the danger of digital communication.

"Video connections do not encourage us to be quiet and thoughtful."

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"Some of the tools that are most powerful, when we look at history, we find they are the most destructive." says Ive. "I do hope the world my boys grow into there's just a little more surprise and wonder and an awful lot less cynical dogma."

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Next up: @TimnitGebru sits down with @tsimonite to discuss the flimsy oversight of tech industry AI projects, and how AI can benefit everyone in society, not just the few.

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Gebru says that prioritizing publishing puts technologists in the position of putting out fires instead of thinking ahead. "The problem is right now we haven't been able to put out our imagination about what the future of AI could be like."

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"Hope is a discipline," says Gebru. She says the incentive structure for AI research needs to shift from making the powerful more powerful to lifting a diverse range of voices. wired.trib.al/Rc5MO3q #REWIRED2021

Gebru says the problem isn't about getting people started in STEM earlier—the problem is the system they're being brought into. "If you bring people into a faulty system that's just going to destroy them, that's a form of turture."

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What is the real cost of a lie on the internet—to ourselves, our communities, our societies?

These speakers know a thing or two about that. Tune in for the next session of RE:WIRED at 4PM EST right here:
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Prince Harry. Renee Diresta. Rashad Robinson. Steven Levy. We're 15 minutes away from their session on the cost of a lie on the internet. Watch live right here: wired.trib.al/Rc5MO3q #REWIRED2021

"Self-regulated companies are unregulated companies" says Rashad Robinson. "People in charge will always choose growth and profit over integrity and security."

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"Misinformation is a global humanitarian crisis," says Prince Harry. "I lost my mother to this self-manufactured rabidness."

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Prince Harry says the issue isn't too big to solve—it's a small number of accounts causing a huge number of problems. "More than 70% of the hate speech about my wife on Twitter can be traced to 50 accounts."

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When asked if he has spoken to the big tech CEOs, Prince Harry says he had emailed Twitter CEO @jack . "I warned Jack that a coup was being staged on the day before (Jan 5), and I haven't heard from him since." -Prince Harry

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"We will always lose the opportunity to create real change in the backrooms if people aren't aligned at the front door,"says Rashad Robinson. "It will require all of us to create real change."

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Renee Diresta reminds that it's not just tech CEOs that hold power, but tech workers themselves who can put pressure on the people at the top from the inside.

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"It's not just a social media problem, it's a media problem," says Prince Harry. "If the media is supposed to be holding us to account, who is holding them to account? It's become kind of a digital dictatorship."

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"Freedom of speech is not freedom from the consequences of speech." - Rashad Robinson

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"I think we're moving in the right direction, but I'm not sure I'm necessarily optimistic," says Renee DiResta. "I'm concerned that the normal way to participate online is to participate in the amplification of propaganda."

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"People now more than ever want and need trust, transparency, and truth." says Prince Harry. "We need to have a shared reality."

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That's it from RE:WIRED Day One! Join us tomorrow for conversations with Stephane Bancel, Beeple, Jen Easterly, Neal Stephenson, John Cho, and more: wired.trib.al/aW5KtCT #REWIRED2021