418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability

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Ari Cohn (FIRE) and Tom Kurland (Patterson Belknap) discuss the spate of product-liability lawsuits against social-media and AI companies. Topics include: A tort law primer The ballad of Helen Palsgraf Causation, shmausation Speech =/= product Ideas are powerful. (That’s the point!) “Addiction.” You keep using that word … ♪ Junk science ♪ AI, suicide, and you Links: Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media Tech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification

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