This week, President-elect Donald Trump picked Brendan Carr to be the next chairman of the F.C.C. We talk with The Verge’s editor in chief, Nilay Patel, about what this could mean for the future of the internet, and for free speech at large. Then, a new study found that ChatGPT defeated doctors at diagnosing some diseases. One of the study’s authors, Dr. Adam Rodman, joins us to discuss the future of medicine. And finally, court is back in session. It’s time for the Hard Fork Crimes Division.

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Guests:

• Nilay Patel, co-founder of The Verge and host of the podcasts Decoder and The Vergecast.
• Adam Rodman, internal medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and one of the co-authors of a recent study testing the effectiveness of ChatGPT to diagnose illnesses.

Additional Reading:

• Trump Picks Brendan Carr to Lead F.C.C.
• A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
• Gary Wang, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Time

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