Tech Policy Podcast

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

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