In your large quantities of spare studying time, I’m certain.
Sure, precisely. So for me, three books: The primary is definitely a report from 1945 by Vannevar Bush to Franklin D. Roosevelt known as “Science, the Limitless Frontier,” which has been became a ebook. You may get it on Amazon, and it’s mainly the blueprint for America’s nationwide science and expertise coverage for the following a number of many years. And I feel it has a lot resonance to what we have to do right this moment on semiconductors, on A.I., on clear power, on biotechnology, on quantum. And it’s actually a narrative about daring public funding and experimentation — unlocking each personal sector and educational analysis that powered American innovation by many years. Vannevar Bush delivered that proper on the finish of the Second World Conflict to F.D.R., and it makes for an excellent learn.
The second is a ebook that I’m simply partly by. I’ll learn the entire thing, however I skipped to the top as a result of I actually needed to concentrate on the A.I. a part of it: “Nexus: A Temporary Historical past of Info Networks from the Stone Age to A.I.,” by Yuval Noah Harari. I feel everybody ought to learn this ebook. I don’t agree with each phrase of it, but it surely paints an image of what we’re going to be contending with synthetic intelligence that, frankly, is just a little bit worrisome however can be so deeply considerate. One of many factors he makes is: For the primary time, people are inventing not a device however an agent, and this has every kind of implications.
After which the third ebook — a completely completely different sort of ebook — “The Scenario Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Disaster,” which George Stephanopoulos wrote. If you wish to perceive my job and what sitting within the Scenario Room is like — coping with crises, with presidents, with secretaries of state and protection — this ebook truly walks by the historical past of the Scenario Room as informed by a collection of episodes over a number of presidents.
And I like to recommend it just because it’s onerous to know what the heck a nationwide safety adviser does. You learn that ebook, you’ll have some sense of the rationale why the baggage beneath my eyes are so heavy.
Jake Sullivan, thanks very a lot.
Thanks.
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