Moral and cultural panics about what the future is going to bring is… well, it’s just part of the human condition. No where is this more obvious than the rapidly progressing world of technology — with Artificial Intelligence rapidly advancing and social media being blamed for plenty of cultural ills, there is no shortage of people wringing their hands about the possible harm of such tech.

Shoshana Weissman from R Street Institute joined me to talk about this panic — which is quickly turning into a regulatory rush to stifle its advance. Most importantly, we engage one of the most overlooked aspects of all this worrisome, frightening and potentially-job-killing technologies: Why are they so awesome?

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