The latest generative AI technologies have dominated the headlines these last few months raising questions about how ChatGPT will change teaching, research and learning at colleges and universities, as well as in society at large. In this episode, we explore AI’s impacts – both big and small – with nationally recognized technology policy expert and Director of UNC at Chapel Hill’s Center on Technology Policy Matt Perault. 

Episode Resources:

• UNC Center on Technology Policy: https://techpolicy.unc.edu/
• Matt Perault Article on Section 230 and Chat GPT: https://www.lawfareblog.com/section-230-wont-protect-chatgpt
• “Our Robophobia” by Andrew Keane Woods: https://www.lawfareblog.com/our-robophobia
• “Communications Can Be Defamatory Even If Readers Realize There's a Considerable Risk of Error” by Eugene Volokh: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/03/31/communications-can-be-defamatory-even-if-readers-realize-theres-a-considerable-risk-of-error/ 

Class Notes Links

• “On Juneteenth” by Annette Gordon-Reed: https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-juneteenth-annette-gordon-reed/15266396
• Jenny Pizer, LAMBDA Legal SpeechMatters Episode: https://freespeechcenter.universityofcalifornia.edu/speechmatters-podcast/#Ep6Jenny 
• American Library Association’s “Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022:” https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10