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Imagining AI Countergovernance
Multiple past episodes of this podcast have focused on the topic of AI governance. But today’s guest, Blair Attard-Frost, has put forward a set of id…
2 years, 5 months ago
Tech CEOs Face the US Senate on Child Safety
On Wednesday, January 31st, the US Senate Judiciary Committee hosted a hearing titled "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis." The…
2 years, 5 months ago
How to Assess AI Governance Tools
Last year, the World Privacy Forum, a nonprofit research organization, conducted an international review of AI governance tools. The organization ana…
2 years, 5 months ago
How to Defend Independent Technology Research from Corporate and Political Opposition
In October 2022, a group of researchers published a manifesto establishing a Coalition for Independent Technology Research.
“Society needs trustworth…
2 years, 6 months ago
Questioning OpenAI's Nonprofit Status
Today’s guest is Robert Weissman, president of the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen. He is the author of a letter addressed to…
2 years, 6 months ago
Evaluating Social Media's Role in the Israel-Hamas War
Today is the three month anniversary of the vicious Hamas attack and abduction of hostages that ignited the current war in Gaza. Just before the New …
2 years, 6 months ago
Exposing the Rotten Reality of AI Training Data
In a report released December 20, 2023, the Stanford Internet Observatory said it had detected more than 1,000 instances of verified child sexual abu…
2 years, 6 months ago
An FDA for AI?
If you’ve listened to some of the dialogue in hearings on Capitol Hill about how to regulate AI, you’ve heard various folks suggest the need for a re…
2 years, 6 months ago
What Are We Building, and Why?
At the end of this year in which the hype around artificial intelligence seemed to increase in volume with each passing week, it’s worth stepping bac…
2 years, 7 months ago
Europe Advances Its AI Act
In April 2021, the European Commission introduced the first regulatory framework for AI within the EU. This Friday, after a marathon set of negotiati…
2 years, 7 months ago