with the way that agents are working and tool use, it started to become really useful for, still early days of it, but genuinely useful in societal benefits of it, because at the same time, we would break off bits of that and use it for specialized systems like more AlphaFolds
But what do you think is the societal fix for the problems you see in this film or that you pose? Societal fix, it's a great question.I think the first step is education and awareness, which is why we made the film in the first place.
Enemies in war, of course. Societal meltdown, some of these are very scary, given the situations that we're going through.But there are new calamities on the right.
medical care, and shelter. Societal Advancement Initiative's Global Mission Foundation was created in early 2008 as a registered international nonprofit organizationto further promote and streamline the charitable activities that had started in 2006.
What are some other things? societal -wide shifts in thinking and in art and science and tech and that kind of thing.
gained a foothold that terrorist groups tend to be like a toxic byproduct of societal breakdown okay the Taliban got their start in the massive social and economic disruption of the Soviet Afghanwar alqaeda got its start out of that Afghan War as well and they exploited uh that societal breakdown as a means of
In addition to that, it's really, really important- To be clear that when we are talking about the Waymo Driver, we are only talking about technology that means you in societal benefit. And so I think that kind of rigor and discipline I'm really proud of because what it does is it says to everyone in the space
It might refer to Chirli, the literal female dog of the novel, but it has the double meaning of being a not-so-nice term for women who don’t conform to societal expectations. As Damaris personifies Chirli, first as an infant daughter and then as a vindictive absentee mother, Quintana casts light on the character of Damaris.
Like getting 90% of the plastic out of the ocean, like having a hundred carbon neutral cities across Europe. Or societal ones, social ones like fighting knife crime in London, the city where I live. Zero knife crime amongst teenagers.
our body. And I thought, how could you update this? Is there some different way to look at these things? So the lung is an organ that is kind of odd when you look at it through societal values. Because in our western societies, we usually think, oh, you have to be really eager, you know, put your elbow out, achieve something, put in more hours, be really tough for something. And then there's this organ so soft, so passive, just like going along with what the
at the individual level, everyone should make the best choice and the right choice for them. But at the societal level, this does start having quite clear negative impacts. And just just to give
So the question is, what do we want? And in terms of societal direction, what do we want to optimize society for? What do you think we should optimize society for?
So moving things around in these shared size things. There was no societal debate about that. It's had tremendous consequences.
For sure. Speaking about the Caribbean, I feel like Puerto Rico and its people have been leaders in breaking barriers for, not just musicians, but I mean societal causes and a lot of different things that within the Latino community, we try to address. With folks, like, I think of, just the top of my mind, Ricky Martin, Kany Garcia, which you recently I love her.
And so being where we are and occupying these spaces allows us to help bring equity and equality by dismantling this societal image that's White, Eurocentric. And that's so important for us to understand and dismantle, because that's the only way that we'll be able to see equality
So that societal mindset has to change.
So the Apollo program, which I'm sure we'll talk about in a minute, was pretty top-down by Kennedy and the gang. Increasingly these societal missions, which are much harder than purely technological ones, need much more stakeholder engagement in the first place. So getting, say, resident associations and social housing to come together alongside policymakers and businesses to even talk about what does a sustainability strategy even
Is it a societal thing or is it a government thing, or like what's your perspective when you actually go about actually creating programs to help people?
How have changing societal expectations of how processes should work impacted how institutions need to approach this problem?
And the other massive societal event over the last couple of months have been the protest and reaction to the death of George Floyd.
but also a societal issue that we talk about, the war on cancer and these big terms that we align cancer almost with terrorism, and drugs, and so forth.
Those are real societal problems.
and sort of societal issues that might come up in thinking about some of these studies.
is that societal issues don't have to be a drag on the business.
will see societal collapse relatively near term.
stereotypical models of societal behavior, for that matter.
Or is it about societal models?
about how societal expectations of technology.
We think about societal humanitarian work, and then we think about tech business work as if they are these two separate things.
But as a societal recommendation, that's cool by me.
And at the societal level, we don't really expect these things.
This is not a societal issue.
But from a societal perspective, I sometimes wonder what kind of difficulties there would be.
But when societal restrictions are removed, the absence of identity allows the inner animal off the leash.
There was societal unrest.
Do you see this societal shifts, particularly in America?
And also I think societal , like, societal pressure to sort of follow one straight path.
almost a new societal ethic to live in public. And then when you live in private, you're robbing people of other
There's societal constructs of 60 minute presentations or meetings -- Scott Berkun: Yes.
as well as a societal , level. I want us to have a meaningful choice again of what to forget and what to remember, rather than to have to accept the implicit bias of
And I presented as societally very masculine, and then societally very feminine.
And then societally , also, men tend to not shy away from just picking up the phone and call up a mate to ask him a favor
- You're talking about a complete global societal meltdown.
And my call to action on a societal level is that we need to start celebrating people that do it both ways.
They will find these corner cases of societal biases that occur.
the I guess social or societal incentives that they founded themselves on.
working and living better. And the same thing at a societal level, too. Again, what is society about, governments about?
And old happy really comes from three societal forces of capitalism, individualism, and domination.
But thinking wider on a societal scale, these things, these practices, they have huge power to help so many people, especially
But I don't like the societal pressure to go from school to college and get a degree, because oftentimes, for you to ask someone who's