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 primerThe ballad of Helen PalsgrafCausation, shmausationSpeech =/= productIdeas are powerful. (That’s the point!)“Addiction.” You keep using that word …♪ Junk science ♪AI, suicide, and youLinks:Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian JihadTech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social MediaTech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification

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