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418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability

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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

Tech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification

  continue reading

427 episodes

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Manage episode 506436288 series 2533159
Content provided by TechFreedom. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by TechFreedom or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

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

Tech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification

  continue reading

427 episodes

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