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Tech Policy Podcast Podcast

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.

  1. 385: AI Snake Oil

    5 DAYS AGO

    385: AI Snake Oil

    Sayash Kapoor (Princeton) discusses the incoherence of precise p(doom) predictions and the pervasiveness of AI “snake oil.” Check out his and Arvind Narayanan’s new book, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference. Topics include: - What’s a prediction, really? - p(doom): your guess is as good as anyone’s - Freakishly chaotic creatures (us, that is) - AI can’t predict the impact of AI - Gaming AI with invisible ink - Life is luck—let’s act like it - Superintelligence (us, that is) - The bitter lesson - AI danger: sweat the small stuff Links: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference (https://tinyurl.com/4v3byma9) AI Existential Risk Probabilities Are Too Unreliable to Inform Policy (https://tinyurl.com/fdrcu5s6) AI Snake Oil (Substack) (https://tinyurl.com/2chwfrka)

    54 min
  2. 384: The Facebook Antitrust Case

    9 SEPT

    384: The Facebook Antitrust Case

    Geoff Manne (International Center for Law & Economics) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discuss the many, many flaws in the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta (Facebook). A crossover episode with the Washington Legal Foundation / TechFreedom Tech in the Courts series. Topics include: - The ontology of Facebook - Social networking: it’s not 2008 anymore - The FTC’s made-up market - The WhatsApp Catch-22 - Has Facebook been enshittified? - Product design by government: bad idea! - Growing startups: hard, actually Links: The Feds Unfriend Facebook: Why the FTC’s Meta Antitrust Case Should Fail (https://tinyurl.com/k988vjn8) Tech Policy Podcast 357: The Amazon Antitrust Case (https://tinyurl.com/2s4xz9xs) Tech Policy Podcast 353: The Google Search Antitrust Trial (https://tinyurl.com/mryvmrce) Tech Policy Podcast 302: Epic v. Apple (https://tinyurl.com/39chu42b)

    54 min
  3. 383: SCOTUS Internet Non-Law

    27 AUG

    383: SCOTUS Internet Non-Law

    TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold, Ari Cohn, and Santana Boulton partake in a summer doldrums bitchfest about recent and upcoming Supreme Court internet speech cases. Topics include: - SCOTUS ducks in Moody v. NetChoice - Hey, let’s *not* reward bad-faith legislating - Justice Kagan: progressive traitor (and we love it) - Justice Alito is mad - What’s next for online speech? - SCOTUS ducks in Murthy v. Missouri - Judge Terry Doughty: incompetent boob - The censorship industrial complex that wasn’t - SCOTUS takes up Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton - Texas tries to age-gate XXX - Is porn getting more extreme? - The seven dirty words Links: Tech Policy Podcast 350: When the Government Yells at Social Media (https://tinyurl.com/5c7wmuj4) Tech Policy Podcast 373: Porn and the First Amendment (https://tinyurl.com/2p86rm47) Project 2025 Co-Author Caught Admitting Secret Conservative Plan to Ban Porn (https://tinyurl.com/4vmmy3rr)

    1h 18m
  4. 382: AI and Everything

    13 AUG

    382: AI and Everything

    Is AI a miracle? A threat? Will it free us? Enslave us? Both? Neither? What’s the future of AI and governance? AI and art? AI and elections? AI and social media? AI and the economy? AI and the world? Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast: AI and Everything. On this special episode, we present highlights from more than a year of conversations with leading experts on the state of the AI revolution. Featuring Adam Thierer, Samuel Hammond, Liza Lin, Arnold Kling, Brian Frye, Joseph Tainter, James Pethokoukis, Robert Atkinson, Alice Marwick, and Ari Cohn. Links: Tech Policy Podcast 327: The Collapse of Complex Societies (https://tinyurl.com/48v8d6u9) Tech Policy Podcast 337: China and Domestic Surveillance (https://tinyurl.com/33x7syb7) Tech Policy Podcast 346: Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? (https://tinyurl.com/2s3b6f42) Tech Policy Podcast 355: Conservative Futurism (https://tinyurl.com/2p9mj7kr) Tech Policy Podcast 361: AI, Art, Copyright, and the Life of Brian (https://tinyurl.com/4hvus7kh) Tech Policy Podcast 363: AI and Elections (https://tinyurl.com/ay3cpztr) Tech Policy Podcast 369: AI and State Capacity (https://tinyurl.com/3ubm2ku6) Tech Policy Podcast 375: Tech Facts and Fallacies (https://tinyurl.com/4azkjp25) Tech Policy Podcast 377: AI and Wicked Problems (https://tinyurl.com/mw9b33ws)

    52 min
  5. 381: American Techno-Industrial Leadership — With Noah Smith

    1 AUG

    381: American Techno-Industrial Leadership — With Noah Smith

    Noah Smith (Noahpinion Substack) discusses techno-industrial competition with China and Russia. Topics include: - American industry: we’re #2 :( - Allies: no longer a luxury - NEPA sucks - A brief lesson about nickel - The death of state capacity: greatly exaggerated? - Will information destroy liberalism? - Clowns to the left, clowns to the right - Hey, let’s *not* be divided and poor Links: Noahpinion (Substack) (https://tinyurl.com/asry5zej) People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone (https://tinyurl.com/mvfm5252) Happy fun Cold War 2 update (https://tinyurl.com/msf29mze) Three holes in the U.S.’ economic strategy against China (https://tinyurl.com/7vyb7tzy) How liberal democracy might lose the 21st century (https://tinyurl.com/3zusc46f) Liberalism is losing the information war (https://tinyurl.com/r9duzw72)

    59 min
  6. 380: Quantum Computing

    22 JUL

    380: Quantum Computing

    Brandon Kirk Williams (Lawrence Livermore) discusses quantum computing—the science behind it, its potential applications, the geopolitics surrounding it, and more. Links: The U.S. Must Win the Quantum Computing Race. History Shows How to Do It (https://tinyurl.com/4bkeua8n) The U.S. Needs a Strategy for the Second Quantum Revolution (https://tinyurl.com/2wst3xp8)

    52 min
  7. 379: Child Online Safety Legislation as Bright Shiny Object

    10 JUL

    379: Child Online Safety Legislation as Bright Shiny Object

    Alice Marwick (UNC-Chapel Hill) discusses her new paper, “Child Online Safety Legislation: A Primer.” If you’re wondering, the article Corbin quotes at the top of the show is Zephyr Teachout, Ending Big Tech’s Child Exploitation (Compact Magazine) (https://tinyurl.com/mjn4k7m8). Topics include: - Moral panic in the technical sense - The Kids Online Safety Act: not about kids, not about safety - Once more, with feeling: correlation is not causation - “Harmful content”: no one knows what it means, but it’s provocative - Care about kids? Center them, not technology Links: Child Online Safety Legislation: A Primer (https://tinyurl.com/3v42d3ee) Tech Policy Podcast #342: Save the Children (From State Social Media Laws) (https://tinyurl.com/mrx8vc7v)

    46 min
  8. 378: Broadband Regulation at the Zombie FCC

    1 JUL

    378: Broadband Regulation at the Zombie FCC

    Berin Szóka (TechFreedom) and James Dunstan (TechFreedom) discuss the FCC’s recent orders on Title II common-carrier regulation and digital discrimination. Topics include: - A hundred years of telecom law in four minutes - The craziest story in the history of federal regulation - FCC: Huzzah for crappy Internet (like in Europe)! - SCOTUS: Congress must tackle major questions! - Disparate treatment vs. disparate impact - The FCC crams an elephant in a mousehole Links: Zombie FCC vs. Schoolhouse-Rock Supreme Court (https://tinyurl.com/5d22jhm7) FCC Revives Common Carriage for the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/r4fn7ck3) TechFreedom’s brief in the digital discrimination litigation (https://tinyurl.com/29hmny7a) TechFreedom’s comments in the FCC’s Title II proceeding (https://tinyurl.com/us2u4ysj) Net Neutrality Legislation: A Framework for Consensus (https://tinyurl.com/yc54b4ff)

    58 min
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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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    TechFreedom
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2024
  • Episodes
    388
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