STLR Conversations

This is the fourth episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled "Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives."

Author: Catherine Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, NYU School of Law

Commentator: Thomas Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Moderator: Sarah Al-Shalash, Columbia Law School, J.D. '24

A link to slides will be posted here when available.

This is the third episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled "Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives."

Author: Alice Xiang, Global Head of AI Ethics at Sony

Commentator: Talia Gillis, Associate Professor of Law and Milton Handler Fellow, Columbia Law School

Moderator: Nancy Lu, Columbia Law School, J.D. '24

A link to slides will be posted here when available.

This is the second episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled "Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives."

Author: Mark Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Commentator: Matthew Sag, Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science, Emory University School of Law

Moderator: Joshua Simmons, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

A link to slides will be posted here when available.

This is the first episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled "Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives."

Paper Author: Christopher Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Commentator: Eric Talley, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Moderator: Abby Graegin, Columbia Law School, J.D. '24

A link to slides will be posted here when available.

This week, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr joins STLR host Mariam Kamal to discuss the natonal security concerns surrounding Tiktok. Commissioner Carr was appointed to the FCC in 2018 by former President Donald Trump. Recently, Comissioner Carr wrote a letter to Apple and Google urging them to remove Tiktok from their app stores and testified in Congress about Tiktok's security threat.

Before the interview, Mariam and co-host Ben Faber provide some background information on the Tiktok controversy and discuss why Comissioner Carr believes Tiktok is a threat to national security.

This week, Professor Lynisse Pantin joins STLR host Mariam Kamal to discuss the startup ecosyem and the challenges that minorities face when starting a company.

Professor Pantin is the founding director of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at Columbia Law School and author of "The Wealth Gap and Racial Disparities in the Startup Ecosystem."

Should social media companies continue to rely on ex post standards to regulate what their users post? Or should platforms look to free speech jurisprudence to make these determinations? Are these companies publishers entitled to free speech protections? Or are they just platforms primarily concerned with hosting their users' content?

As this debate goes on, Evelyn Douek thinks this framing misses the point. Douek, of Harvard Law School and the Knight First Amendment Foundation, argues that a free-speech paradigm gives social media entities a possibly undeserved amount of authority to shape domestic and international events. Instead of trying to draw the line between "good" and "bad" speech, she recommends a systems level ex ante regulatory in which online platforms are treated as bureaucratic agencies and regulated using administrative law norms such as accountability and transparency.

You can find more about Evelyn Douek's work on her website, and you can follow her on Twitter.

For our next two episodes, STLR Conversations will be discussing where to start with the ever-growing call for regulation of social media. This week, Colin Stretch and Mariam Kamal discuss the former's path from working in the public sector as a judicial clerk to liaising with the public sector as general counsel of Facebook. This interview, conducted last semester, provides important context for understanding the regulatory opportunities and constraints facing internet platforms.

This week, former-Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler joins STLR editor Mariam Kamal to discuss how he came to the FCC and what the future of technology regulations might look like in light of Frances Haugen's congressional testimony.

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STLR Conversations returns with an interview with Professor Thibault Schrepel. An associate professor at VU Amsterdam and a faculty affiliate of Stanford Law's CodeX Center, he and STLR's Jessica Hart discuss possible friction and synergies between antitrust enforcement and blockchain technology. Professor Schrepel develops these ideas into an innovative regulatory mechanisms in his new book Blockchain + Antitrust: The Decentralization Formula.

Professor Schrepel's academic profile: https://law.stanford.edu/directory/thibault-schrepel/

Blockchain + Antitrust publisher's page: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/blockchain-antitrust-9781800885523.html

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