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418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability
Manage episode 506436288 series 2533159
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 primer
- The ballad of Helen Palsgraf
- Causation, shmausation
- Speech =/= product
- Ideas are powerful. (That’s the point!)
- “Addiction.” You keep using that word …
- ♪ Junk science ♪
- AI, suicide, and you
Links:
Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad
Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media
427 episodes
Manage episode 506436288 series 2533159
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 primer
- The ballad of Helen Palsgraf
- Causation, shmausation
- Speech =/= product
- Ideas are powerful. (That’s the point!)
- “Addiction.” You keep using that word …
- ♪ Junk science ♪
- AI, suicide, and you
Links:
Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad
Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media
427 episodes
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