Age Against the Machine

from Ctrl-Alt-Speech · host Mike Masnick & Jess Miers

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by Jess Miers, law professor at University of Akron School of Law. Together, they discuss: AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) OpenAI’s Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian community after failing to flag mass shooter’s conversations with its AI chatbot (CNN) OpenAI And Sam Altman Could Face Dozens More Lawsuits Over School Shooting In British Columbia, Lawyer Says (Forbes) Manitoba premier addresses province’s plan to ban youth from social media, AI chatbots (CTV News) Turkey Passes Legislation Barring Children Under 15 From Social Media (NY Times) How YouTube Took Over the American Classroom (WSJ) Support the podcast by joining our Patreon, with special founder membership available until May 28th. Follow us on Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky. Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).

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