{"id":1323,"date":"2017-01-01T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artificialbrain.xyz\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2017-01-01T15:33:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T12:33:55","slug":"we-live-online-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/we-live-online-now\/","title":{"rendered":"We Live Online Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hosted by Andrew Ross Sorkin and the editors of The New York Times, the DealBook conference (dated on November 10, 2016) brings together visionaries \u2014 powerful C.E.O.s, leading figures in finance and experts from diverse industries \u2014 to assess the challenges and opportunities that will define the deal world of tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Participants had the rare opportunity to interact with other industry leaders in a collaborative environment, designed to encourage chance encounters, spark partnerships and inspire fresh thinking.\u00a0Eric Schmidt was one of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Most public figures should assume that information about them will be leaked. At least, that\u2019s what Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, thinks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Schmidt, whose emails with members of Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign were stolen and recently published online by WikiLeaks, spoke at length about the importance of tightening digital security at a conference held by The New York Times on Thursday, and said that President-elect Donald J. Trump should create a division within the federal government that spends its time auditing the security of its systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe live online now<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you grab someone\u2019s smartphone, it\u2019s equal or worse than grabbing their wallet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He said Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, once told him that, because \u201cgovernments are capable of systemic evil, which requires planning,\u201d leaking any form of activity at that level would prevent government from getting \u201ctoo far into that evil.\u201d Mr. Schmidt punctuated that story, however, by saying, \u201cThe problem, of course, with this argument, is that he appoints himself the judge of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Schmidt added that the United States government had not yet figured out how to deter digital attacks from other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201dChina has been responsible for the vast majority of commercial attacks, and yet we maintain good relations with China over all,<\/strong>\u201d he said. \u2014 DANIELLE IVORY<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n