422: Algorithms Rule the Internet (and Ash Feels Fine)
She’s back! Former host Ash Kazaryan (Future of Free Speech) returns for a wide-ranging discussion about powerful algorithms, attacks on Section 230, and much, much more.Topics include:Ash: this is your life!In defense of tHe aLGoRitHmIn defense of Section 230Once more: Anderson v. TikTok is so badHas information gotten too cheap?Why Evangelicals should love AIWhy every platform has a metamorphosisLet’s get cancelledLinks:I Built This Algo Brick by BrickThe Bedrock PrincipleNeural VizTech Policy Podcast 417: Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Is Wreaking HavocTPP From the Vault: Revising Section 230 Will Silence Marginalized VoicesTPP From the Vault: Why Section 230 Matters
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421: OpenAI’s Tumultuous Corporate Reboot
Sri Muppidi (The Information) discusses OpenAI’s effort to overhaul its corporate structure—and the resulting power struggle over the company’s future.Links:OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring OpenAI Says Nonprofit Parent Will Own Equity Stake in Company of Over $100 Billion
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420: Tech and Immigration
Jeremy Neufeld (Institute for Progress) discusses how our immigration system works, why high-skilled immigrants are so important to the tech sector, what’s wrong with the Trump administration’s H-1B reforms, why America is so complacent about competing for global talent, and more.Links: Trump’s H-1B Changes Won’t WorkTalent Recruitment Roulette: Replacing the H-1B Lottery | IFPThe Talent Scout State | IFPTech Policy Podcast 317: Making Progress
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419: Do Tech Optimists Have a Party?
Adam Kovacevich (Chamber of Progress) discusses the populist / anti-tech turn in politics, and what can be done about it.Topics include:How did we get here?Tech optimists: There are dozens of us!Beware ThE gROupSIf there’s a crisis, maybe act like it?Duct tape and bubble gumThe great relearningWe’re so doomedWe’re so not doomedLinks:Tech Policy Podcast 403: The Constitutional CrisisTech Policy Podcast 388: The Abundance AgendaTech Policy Podcast 355: Conservative FuturismTech Policy Podcast 301: The Realignment
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418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability
Ari Cohn (FIRE) and Tom Kurland (Patterson Belknap) discuss the spate of product-liability lawsuits against social-media and AI companies.Topics include:A tort law primerThe ballad of Helen PalsgrafCausation, shmausationSpeech =/= productIdeas are powerful. (That’s the point!)“Addiction.” You keep using that word …♪ Junk science ♪AI, suicide, and youLinks:Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian JihadTech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social MediaTech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification
Tech policy is at the center of the hottest debates in American law and politics. On the Tech Policy Podcast, host Corbin Barthold discusses the latest developments with some of the tech world's best journalists, lawyers, academics, and more.
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