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Explain to Shane — 146 episodes
Frontier AI and the Cybersecurity Challenges (with Kevin Frazier)
Congressional Use of Artificial Intelligence (with Aubrey Wilson)
Unlocking the Airwaves: Spectrum Allocation and Regulation (with Thomas Hazlett)
Trust and Safety in a Fragmented Digital World (with David Sullivan and Farzaneh Badiei)
Moving the Economy On-Chain (with Marc Boiron and Nicoletta Kolpakov)
Has the Cloud Gone Global? (with Michael Greenwald)
Data Centers and Power Grids: The Battle for AI Infrastructure (with Lynne Kiesling and Steve DelBianco)
GPS, the Invisible Foundation of Modern Infrastructure, Needs an Update (with Dana A. Goward and Jeff Hathaway)
The Future of Drones (with Brian Hinman and John Donovan)
Technology and Vulnerability: How Current Cybersecurity Measures Fall Short (with Greg Oslan)
How AI Is Shifting the Telecom Landscape (with Roger Entner)
CISA vs. CISA: How Cybersecurity Legislation Is Being Held Hostage by Politics (with Caitlin Clarke, Cristin Flynn Goodwin, and Jim Lewis)
Digital Currency as a Network (with Milton Mueller, Karim Farhat, Vagisha Srivastava, and Nicoletta Kolpakov)
Financial Data Upon Request (with Penny Lee)
When Portability and Social Media Meet (with Matt Reeder)
The Front Door to Your Digital Ecosystem: The Email Inbox (with Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo)
Privacy and Governmental Surveillance (at the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum 2025)
The Digital Markets Act Is Undermining the App Economy by Weakening Security and Opening Data Doors (with Graham Dufault)
DNS Abuse and the Economics of Cybercrime (with Karen Rose)
Interoperability, Data Access, and User Freedom (with Matt Boulos)
Inside the World of Domains (with Ram Mohan)
Reclaiming the Airwaves (with Harold Furchtgott-Roth)
Adapting to the AI Era (with Bojan Tunguz and Brent Orrell)
AI, Governments, and God (with Father Paolo Benanti)
Rethinking the Rules of Space (with Jay Schwarz)
Personalization, Privacy, and Policy (with Rob Sherman)
The Spectrum Exchange: Networks, Security, and Innovation (with Peter Rysavy)
The Future of the Enterprise Browser
Taking on DMV Bureaucracy (with Shane Bigelow)
The Fight against Drug Shortages (with Laura Bray)
Navigating India's Digital Competition Landscape (with Shruti Rajagopalan and Shreyas Narla)
AI and the Future of Civics (with Adam Hinds, Michael Champigny, and Will Foster-Nolan)
The Power of Pivots: How Smart Companies Change the Game (with Gary Shapiro)
The Future of Small Business Financing
The Broadband Dilemma (with Janice Hauge and Mark Jamison)
AI's Corporate Takeover? (With Mark Johnson)
Can We Childproof the Internet? (With Ari Cohn)
Renewing the Partnership Between Government and Entrepreneurs (With Arun Gupta)
Unpacking the Data Dilemma
Busting Tech Myths (with Robert Atkinson and David Moschella)
Securing the Web with Route Origin Authorizations (with Grace Abuhamad and Robert Cannon)
Inside Tech's $2 Trillion Technical Debt (with Ken Silva)
Borderless Banking: How Crypto Cuts Through Red Tape (with Candace Kelly)
Defending the Digital Realm (with Jason Hogg)
Global Connectivity Unplugged (with Brian Barritt and Michael Cheng)
What Has Been Done to Address Online Lag? (with Jason Livingood)
What Do the EU’s Tech Regulations Mean for the US? (With James Lewis)
Inside the Challenge against Phone Spam (with Dave Stewart)
Making Sense of Music Streaming
Beyond Bitcoin (with Yuval Rooz)
Candidates, Bots, and Ballots: How AI is Rewriting Political Advertising (with Scott Brennen and Matt Perault)
Quantum: Computing’s Next Innovation Wave (with Alan Baratz )
The Paperless Revolution with Scott Wyatt
Securing Your Digital Life in an Age of Hacks (with Harry Raduege)
Privacy, Data, National Security and the Principals for Data Sharing Globalization (with Sujit Raman)
Can We Future-Proof AI? (with Rob Reich)
Uncertainty & Technology: The Adaptability Imperative of Automation (LIVE with Brent Orrell—Part II)
Uncertainty & Technology: The Adaptability Imperative of Automation (LIVE with Brent Orrell—Part I)
From Serving to the Server: How Sandboxx Is Changing Military Life (with Sam Meek)
Unpacking Misconceptions in Tech Antitrust (with Daniel Francis)
From Pixels to Prosperity: Navigating Legal Frontiers and Disruptive Innovation Across Africa (with Susan “Guya” Obunga Otieno)
The Promise and Peril of AI in the Music Industry (with David Hughes)
The Importance of Spectrum Harmonization (with Roger Entner)
A Network of Networks: Modularity in Internet Governance (with Susan Ness)
One World, Two Webs: Can We Make A More Secure Internet? (with Paul Kupiec and Thomas Vartanian)
Procuring Security: Government Software Modernization (with Ryan Triplette)
Spectrum, Satellites, and Subsidies: Telecommunications Decision Points in 2023 (with Michael O’Rielly)
What Does the Right to Repair Really Mean? (with Jeff Westling)
The Munich Security Conference at 60: Promoting International Cooperation, Trust, and Digital Security (with Benedikt Franke)
Does the U.S. Have Global Tech Superiority? Our China Challenge Going Forward (with James Lewis)
Can Transatlantic Cooperation Transform the China Tech Race? (with Peter Brown)
Have We Turned a Blind Eye to Cybersecurity? (with Ambassador Robert O'Brien)
Establishing Global Spectrum Leadership and a Modern FCC (LIVE with Ajit Pai)
Effectively Managing Cyber Challenges in the Public and Private Sectors (with Jason Blessing)
Helping Local “Microbusinesses” Thrive (with Alex Rosen)
Combatting the Problem of Domain Name Abuse (with Graeme Bunton)
Can We Modernize the Federal Identity System? (with Jordan Burris)
Reining in China’s Dominance of the International Telecommunication Union (with Danielle Pletka, Brett Schaefer, and Dominique Lazanski)
“Building for Tomorrow”: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur (with Jason Feifer)
Integrating Extended Reality into Education, Work, and Daily Life (with David Scurlock)
How PayPal Laid the Groundwork for Silicon Valley as We Know It (with Jimmy Soni)
Congressional Chip Funding: Are We There Yet? (with Peter Cleveland and Jon Hoganson)
The Challenge of Putting Federal Broadband Funds to Good Use (with Mark Jamison)
An Update on the Global Intellectual Property Landscape (with Michael Rosen)
Re-Thinking Spectrum Sharing to Enable a 5G Future (with Peter Rysavy)
A Look Inside a Cybersecurity Training Firm (with Keith Peer)
The State of Our Nation's Cybersecurity (with Michael Chertoff)
Can the US and Europe Find Common Ground on Tech Policy? (with Peter Brown)
How to Build a ‘Trusted Future’ Online (with Adam Golodner)
How to Improve Mobile-Device Security (with Kevin McNamee)
How Congress Could Make Your Smartphone Less Secure (with Patrick Hedger)
Why computer chips have major geopolitical and national-security implications (with Chris Miller)
Does the chip industry need a boost from big government? (with Karl Wennberg)
Communications infrastructure and America’s connected future (with Todd Schlekeway)
What will the next generation of the internet look like? (with Gabrielle Hibbert)
A potential breaking point for tech antitrust (with Matt Perault and Blair Levin)
Can technology improve supply chain management? (with Glenn Richey)
Unpacking the complexities of online content moderation (with Julie Owono)
How is cybersecurity law being constructed? (with Jim Dempsey)
A privacy-friendly digital wallet for children (with Rick Lane)
A spectrum roadblock for the wireless industry (with Mike O’Rielly and Harold Feld)
A co-author of Section 230 on the law’s past, present, and future (with Former Rep. Chris Cox)
Analyzing Congress' skirmish with Big Tech (with Jennifer Huddleston)
What’s going on at the Federal Trade Commission? (with Bilal Sayyed — part II)
What’s going on at the Federal Trade Commission? (with Bilal Sayyed — part I)
Should Section 230 be reformed? (with Neil Fried)
How data privacy laws have upended international trade (with Nigel Cory)
How are tech firms weathering the challenges of today’s market? (with John Godfrey)
Understanding the ‘splinternet’ and online security (with Nick Merrill)
‘Privacy by design’: How to engineer better data governance (with Nishant Bhajaria)
The future of IP protections for COVID-19 vaccines and beyond (with Michael Rosen)
The race for quantum computing superiority (with Klon Kitchen)
How to improve trust and safety online (with Clara Tsao)
Advancing cybersecurity through software ‘nutrition labels’ (with Allan Friedman)
The heavy cost of symmetrical broadband speeds (with Richard Bennett)
From idea to interstate: Getting more autonomous vehicles on the road (with Grayson Brulte)
What’s next for 12-GHz spectrum? (with V. Noah Campbell and Richard Bennett)
Making sense of Australia's standoff with Big Tech (with Bronwyn Howell)
Digitizing the barter economy (with Josh Kline)
Do data protection laws really improve cybersecurity? (with Emily Taylor)
Data protection, privacy, and the ethics of artificial intelligence (with Christina Montgomery)
Expanding America's cyber toolbox (with Mieke Eoyang)
How 5G wireless can put more Americans to work (with Michael Mandel and Sal D’Itri)
Shaping American tech policy at the Federal Communications Commission (with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai)
How coding can transform government (with Amanda Renteria)
Municipal broadband: Keeping Americans connected, but at what cost? (with Larry Spiwak and George Ford)
Spectrum re-allocation and 5G at the Federal Communications Commission (with Nathan Leamer)
Paths forward on privacy: Balancing regulation, innovation, and public safety (with Brian King)
The rise of e-sports and competitive gaming (with Lindsay Poss)
Constitution Day special (with Janine Turner, Cathy Gillespie, and Tova Love Kaplan)
America's 5G future: Risks and rewards (with Tommy Ross)
The need for federal IT modernization (with Jason Oxman)
Contact tracing, data privacy, and ‘check-in culture’ (with Adrian Kinderis)
The battle for global internet governance (with Dominique Lazanski)
The potential of the digital dollar (with Jim Harper)
Global internet governance (with David Gross and Dustin Loup)
The American semiconductor industry and its global competition (with John Neuffer)
The making of global telecommunications policy (with Grace Koh and Patricia Paoletta, Part II)
The making of global telecommunications policy (with Grace Koh and Tricia Paoletta, Part I)
Coronavirus, 5G, and restoring internet freedom at the Federal Communications Commission (with Joel Thayer)
“Permissionless innovation” during COVID-19 and beyond (with Adam Thierer)
The future of micromobility (with Michele Kyrouz)
Using blockchain to beat COVID-19 (with Shane Bigelow)
Telecom supply chain security and 5G (with David Stehlin)
Broadband network capacity amid the COVID-19 pandemic (with Roger Entner)
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