The threat from wildfire is growing and prescribed burning -- the controlled application of fire to a specific area of land to achieve defined management objectives -- is an important and traditional tool for maintaining healthy ecosystems and reducing wildfire risks....
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White House Chronicle – Crucial role of weather forecasting for electric utilities
Weather forecasting is crucial for utility companies, impacting everything from demand forecasting to storm readiness and renewable energy integration. David Naylor, who heads Rayburn Electric Cooperative, which serves the Dallas metroplex, and Hansi Singh, a...
White House Chronicle – Jeffrey Cole – AI – Is Superintelligence At Hand – Aug 14 2025
The consensus among AI savants is that 2027 will be a key year -- a year in which AI achieves some degree of "sentience": It won't want to be shut down, for example. The HAL scenario, in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" is coming. But Jeffrey Cole, director of the USC...
White House Chronicle – The Essentiality of Batteries- Aug 8 2025
Batteries are powering our future, from electric vehicles to data centers. There is a growing need for energy storage, and there are advances in battery technology. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the "essentiality" of batteries with...
White House Chronicle – Harvey Castro – Exciting Potential of AI In Healthcare – Aug 2 2025
Harvey Castro is an emergency room doctor whose fascination with the potential of AI in healthcare led him to be an early adopter of the technology and a proponent through TEDx Talks and books, including the just-released "Critical Healthcare Infrastructure: :...
White House Chronicle – A Way Forward for Public broadcasting- July 25 2025
Public broadcasting "isn't going away" with the Trump cuts, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III says reassuringly in this week's episode. Powell, who held managerial posts at NPR, PBS and CBS, and Host Llewellyn King take a look back at public broadcasting and offer a way...
White House Chronicle – New Imperatives in Gov. Contracting – April 11 2025
Kevin Brancato, an expert in federal government contracting, discusses the new landscape of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) transactions-based approach to justifying spending and contracts, and how businesses and universities seeking contracts can...
White House Chronicle – White House Chipping Away At Press Freedoms – March 5 2025
The White House has seized control of the press pool from the White House Correspondents' Association. In this episode, Bob Deans, a journalist, author, and a former president of the association, describes the pool of reporters who cover the president that they are...
White House Chronicle – Geeks Journey Into the World of AI- March 14 2025
In this episode, Chris Brown, president of Intelygenz, and a self-described geek, talks with Host Llewellyn King about his start on a Commodore 64 in the north of England, and his current work to bring U.S. companies along on a "journey of confidence" in AI.
White House Chronicle – The Trump Rift With Canada – Feb 28 2025
Charles McMillan, who served as senior policy advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1983 to 1987, now a professor of business a York University in Toronto, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the impact of...
White House Chronicle – New Dimension In Artificial Intelligence – Feb 6 2025
Paul Lee, founder and CEO of Mind AI, based in Seoul, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his company's development of an AI technology that can explain its reasoning process. "We want everyone to trust AI technology more without...
White House Chronicle – Artificial Intelligence – Nov 10 2024
Peter Morici thinks that AI gives Americans good reason to be optimistic. Morici, columnist, economist and emeritus business professor at the University of Maryland, looks at AI in an almost fatherly way. As AI grows up, there is going to be bad behavior, but we...
White House Chronicle – America the Enviable – Nov 1 2024
A cover story in The Economist shows why America is the envy of the world. Host Llewellyn King, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III and Producer Linda Gasparello discuss that enviable position as the election enters its final stretch.