On March 29, Congressman Joe Kennedy III was at USC Annenberg in conversation with Bob Shrum, director of the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future.

“I seem these days always to be in search of what is affirming,” said Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. “I am desperately drawn to what is meaningful, what is human, what is beautiful.”

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Artificial Intelligence: For better or worse? This is clearly the critical question of our time as we enter into a frenzied global push to develop and deploy artificial intelligence. (See Big Idea #7 — “AI will be in every industry and every job” — in LinkedIn’s 50 Big Ideas for 2019.) As I read this thoughtful piece by Chiara Corazza, Managing Director for the Women's Forum for the Economy & Society, I thought back to my October conversation on the topic of AI at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit with Swami Sivasubramanian, V.P. of machine learning for Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Caryn Seidman-Becker, chairman and CEO of CLEAR.