TechTank

By Brookings Institution

TechTank is a biweekly podcast from The Brookings Institution exploring the most consequential technology issues of our time. From artificial intelligence and racial bias in algorith

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The podcast currently has 121 episodes available.

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June 05, 2023 How AI Disrupts Elections and Influences Voter Choices
With the 2024 elections around the corner, political tensions are running high, and there is
considerable concern about how generative AI will affect campaigns and election turnout. This
week, on the TechTank Podcast, co-host Darrell West will engage in a conversation on these
crucial matters with Sarah M.L. Bender, an accomplished JD candidate from the University of
Michigan and the author of the article titled "Algorithmic Elections" in the Michigan Law
Review.
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34min
May 22, 2023 From The TechTank Archives: Twitter, Trump, and Online Speech
From November 28, 2022: In this episode of the podcast, co-host Darrell West speaks to Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings and Tom Wheeler, a visiting fellow in Governance Studies and the author of a forthcoming Brookings book, “Techlash” about Twitter's future, and the consequences of recent tumultuous changes at the company.
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35min
May 08, 2023 Bank failures and the tech sector: For better or for worse?
In the last year, bank failures have dominated the news cycle. On this episode of the TechTank podcast,
co-host Nicol Turner Lee will discuss why the technology sector has been particularly sensitive to recent
bank failures, and what the future of banking looks like in the digital age. Joining the TechTank podcast
to help discuss the future of banking is Aaron Klein, who is the Miriam K. Carliner Chair in Economic
Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution.
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51min
April 24, 2023 Will the U.S. attain a competitive global spectrum strategy?
Consumer demand for wireless services continue to increase in the U.S., prioritizing the need for more licensed and unlicensed spectrum as more services migrate to mobile platforms. On this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-host Nicol Turner Lee sits down with Scott Blake Harris, Senior Spectrum Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary, National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) about the forthcoming National Spectrum Strategy.
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47min
April 10, 2023 Will Generative AI Kill Jobs?
There has been considerable interest in recent months in generative AI that can answer questions, develop videos, write code, and perform many other tasks. On this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-host, Darrell West, is joined by a distinguished expert, John Villasenor, professor of engineering, law, public policy, and management at UCLA and co-director of its Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy to discuss if generative AI will take jobs. Will it be possible for organizations to use these new tools to automate job tasks and reduce dependence on human labor?
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34min
March 27, 2023 How Wikipedia Works
On this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-host, Darrell West, dives into how
Wikipedia handles content moderation, disinformation, and bias. The site is a trusted source of
information for many people, but little is known about how it makes decisions and handles
controversies surrounding its material. Guests are Isabelle Langrock, a PhD candidate at the
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, who is writing a
dissertation on Open Knowledge Production and Digital Access; and Kent Campbell, a
Strategist at Reputation X, a firm that researches Wikipedia references, talk pages, and historical
editing patterns.
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38min
March 13, 2023 How social media is changing politics
In this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, guest host Mishaela Robison, research assistant in Brookings Center for Technology Innovation, talks with Annie Wu Henry, former social media producer and strategist for U.S. Senator John Fetterman’s campaign. Described as Fetterman’s “TikTok Whisperer” by the New York Times, Henry discusses how social media and technology are changing the way voters, and society more generally engage with politics.
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28min
February 27, 2023 How Memes Are Impacting Democracy
On this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, guest host Mishaela Robison will sit down with Dr. Joan
Donovan, Research Director of Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center and Emily Dreyfuss, a journalist,
who leads the Shorenstein Center News Leaders Program, to discuss their book, Meme Wars: The Untold
Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022).
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53min
February 13, 2023 Reclaiming local news in the age of the internet
On this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-host Nicol Turner Lee will discuss the
future of local news and the effects of the internet on traditional business models and the quality
of investigative journalism. The episode will also correlate rising levels of misinformation to an
eroding local news landscape. Podcast guests are Courtney Radsch, postdoctoral research fellow
at UCLA, and Steve Waldman, founder and president of Rebuild Local News.
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45min
January 30, 2023 Is Economic Decoupling Possible for the United States?
On this episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-host Darrell West is joined by two distinguished experts to discuss if economic decoupling is possible for the United States. Melanie Sisson is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where she focuses on national security in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology. Emily Weinstein is a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, where she focuses on U.S.-China technological competition.
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