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Tech Policy Entrepreneurship + Chips Act + Talent Policy
What do we talk about when we talk about tech policy? What are the weird corners of the chips and science bill? How is talent policy broken and what …
3 years, 1 month ago
BALLOONTALK: EMERGENCY EDITION
Chinese balloons over Wyoming!! To discuss, we have on today William 'Balloon Guy' Kim of the Marathon Initiative, Eric Lofgren of AcquisitionTalk, a…
3 years, 1 month ago
AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of Giant Models
Love it or hate it, AI capabilities continue to advance. As futurists imagine how this technology may one day be used, how it develops and who will b…
3 years, 1 month ago
War in Taiwan: Who Would Win?
China v Taiwan: who would win? Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow and director of research at Brookings. He specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the …
3 years, 1 month ago
China's Data Policy Future
This episode is sponsored by Policyware. Check out Samm's class at https://www.policyware.org/chinatalk
How do Chinese cyber laws and regulations affe…
3 years, 1 month ago
War for Taiwan: What Happens If China Wins?
Say China wins a war for Taiwan. What happens next?
To discuss the political and economic consequences of a PRC takeover of Taiwan, I have on today Ju…
3 years, 1 month ago
Rep. Ro Khanna on AI, the China Committee, and Industrial Policy
In 2023, ChinaTalk is going to Congress! First up in our series is Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat who represents Silicon Valley.
We get into:
What he hopes …3 years, 1 month ago
Chips Act: A How To Guide
What can $52bn for semiconductors actually accomplish? To discuss the tensions and tradeoffs underlying the decisions that the US government is about…
3 years, 2 months ago
Knowledge and AI with a Rabbi and Substacker
As AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, we consider the question of whether there are limits to what computers can know and how this compares to hu…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tyler Cowen on AI and China
Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution makes his ChinaTalk debut!
We get into:
How AI is going to change art, education, politics and human relationships …3 years, 2 months ago