Regulate Tech

In this episode we discuss the year that was and the year that is coming - and make some predictions! Happy New Year!

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

On thermonuclear lawsuits, fair and unfair attacks, the necessary grumbling phase, the value of real, deep and felt conflict and much more. How should you react when attacked as an organisation? What is the best policy response to criticism? 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

When should you pivot from lobbying against a bill to shaping it? When should you re-evaluate and ditch old strategies? How can you keep yourself honest in assessing how things are actually going and are we - in policy and politics - rewarding persistence at the price of increasing our sunk costs? We discuss Annie Duke's excellent book Quit: Knowing when to walk away from a policy perspective.

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad 

In this episode we discuss what works and what does not work in trying to shape the outcome of the legislative process. We also launch the idea of venture policy portfolios to avoid being late to the game, and give a few pointers on what not to say. 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

So AI is on everyone's mind. But how should we think about capable and complex systems overall? What are the fundamentals? What are some general models and ideas about the challenges we will face when regulating AI? In this episode we discuss the broad strokes around AI and how they force us to rethink things like agency and actions. 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundböad

In this session we discuss encryption, and how it affects our ability as a society to fight crime. This is not a new discussion, and the questions have been up for discussion before. Is it different this time? We also discuss the long term future of encryption and how the debate might evolve. 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

In this episode we review some recent research and ask why and how we should regulate technology more broadly -- through focusing on the technology or on the human behaviour? What is best and how do we research human behaviour and use of technology better? 

The papers we discussed: 

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2216614120

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.11225.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36848573/

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

How do we deal with new technology from a regulatory perspective? How fast does the legislation catch up with technology, and is it different for different areas of the law? How do things like crypto, AI and quantum provoke responses from government? In this episode we discuss models of regulation for emerging technology, and what we really are regulating - is it technology, companies or geopolitical power balances? 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

In this first episode of the year we discuss the Online Safety Bill and the latest changes, new challenges and everything from criminal liability to age verification in practice. Tune in and send us your questions and ideas. 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

In this episode we review the year - looking at what kind of a year it was. Was it A Year of Catastrophes? A Year of Regulation? Or was it the Twitter year? We discuss the key events, things undervalued and missed -- and what 2023 has to offer! Tune in and offer us ideas for what we should talk about next year!

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad