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Scaling Laws — 251 episodes
Building AI Assurance Ecosystem with Bri Treece (PACT AI) and Dr. Rob Slone (UL Solutions)
Founders & Founders: Brandon Mitchell of WriteSea
AI Consciousness with Anil Seth
Matt Abrams on Trust and the Migration to the Digital Age
Founders & Founders: Matthew Schwartz of Virgo
Daniel Kokotajlo on AI 2040: Plan A
DZ Kalman on the Role of Faith in AI Policy
Founders & Founders: Laura Davis of USLege
Google's Kent Walker on Regulating Frontier AI
The Politics and Politicking of AI with Assemblymember Alex Bores
Courtney Cox on AI in Adjudication [live from the Institute of Law & AI's Workshop on Law-Following AI]
Founders & Founders: Nils Tracy of Authorship
New paths to social mobility with Joe Seddon
Founders & Founders: Adi Tantravahi of Cofactor
All Things Data Centers with Andy Masley
Founders & Founders: Kal Clark of Zauron Labs
Lawfare Daily: 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI’—A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
Founders & Founders: Dhruv Diddi of Solo Tech
"The God Test": AI as Cosmic Reckoning, with Robert Wright
Justified Posteriors join Scaling Laws: Two economists and two lawyers walk into a podcast studio
Explain to Shane (Tews) and Scaling Laws
Lawyering on the Frontier with Janel Thamkul
Radical Optionality: Governing Transformative AI, with Christoph Winter and Charlie Bullock
Tom Davidson on the Importance of AI Character
Governing the Frontier with Owen Larter of Google DeepMind
Inside the Fight to Detect and Govern Synthetic Abuse with Melissa Hutchins of Certifi AI
HAGS (with AI): How AI Tools Are Shaping Education with Adeel Khan and Ryan Trattner
The Politics of Data Centers with VA Delegate John McAuliff
Let's Do the Science! Talking Algorithms with Cathy O'Neill
Escaping One-Size-Fits-All AI Policy with Sean Perryman
Forecasting AI's Impact on the Economy with Deger Turan, CEO of Metaculus
Rapid Response: An "FDA for AI" at the White House?, with Dean Ball
Lawfare Daily: Why AI Won’t Revolutionize Law (At Least Not Yet), with Arvind Narayanan and Justin Curl
An EU-perspective on America’s Approach to AI with Marietje Schaake
Eliminating Barriers to AI Adoption with Clarion AI's Bennett Borden
Facts & Myths About AI's Energy Usage with Gavin McCormick
AI as Abnormal Technology? Scott Sullivan Analyzes AI in the Military Domain
Lawfare Daily: Talking About Sam Altman with Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
Why AI Needs Independent Auditors, with Miles Brundage
Productivity Boom? Labor Shock? Google's Chief Economist on AI
Abundance & AI? Nicholas Bagley Explains
How To Use, Govern, And Lead On AI? Rep. Begich Points The Path Forward
Should AI Laws Be Subject To A Higher Standard? The Right to Compute with Kendall Cotton
Why Data Governance Is the Key to AI Biosecurity, with Jassi Pannu and Doni Bloomfield
Rapid Response Pod: Trump's New AI Framework with Helen Toner & Dean Ball
Is AI a Death Sentence for Civic Institutions?, with Jessica Silbey and Woodrow Hartzog
Can AI Enable Human Agency?, with Tomicah Tillemann
Live from Ashby: Taking a Long View on AI Governance with Austin Carson and Caleb Watney
Scaling Laws x AI Summer: Who Controls the Machine God?
In Defense of Optimism with Packy McCormick
The Pentagon Goes to War With Anthropic
Can AI Make AI Regulation Cheaper?, with Cullen O'Keefe and Kevin Frazier
Claude's Constitution, with Amanda Askell
Live from Ashby: Adaptive AI Governance with Gillian Hadfield and Andrew Freedman
The Persuasion Machine: David Rand on How LLMs Can Reshape Political Beliefs
Alan and Kevin join the Cognitive Revolution.
Is this your last "job"? The AI Economy With AEI's Brent Orrell
Rapid Response Pod on The Implications of Claude's New Constitution
The Honorable AI? Shlomo Klapper Talks Judicial Use of AI
How AI Can Transform Local Criminal Justice, with Francis Shen
Release Schedules and Iterative Deployment with Open AI's Ziad Reslan
A Year That Felt Like a Decade: 2025 Recap with Sen. Maroney & Neil Chilson
Cass Sunstein on What AI Can and Cannot Do
AI Chatbots and the Future of Free Expression with Jacob Mchangama and Jacob Shapiro
Rapid Response Pod on the AI Preemption Executive Order
Graham Dufault on small businesses and navigating EU AI laws
Caleb Withers on the Cybersecurity Frontier in the Age of AI
A Startup's Perspective on AI Policy
Anthropic's General Counsel, Jeff Bleich, Explores the Intersection of Law, Business, and Emerging Technology
The AI Economy and You: How AI Is, Will, and May Alter the Nature of Work and Economic Growth with Anton Korinek, Nathan Goldschlag, and Bharat Chander
Anthropic's Gabriel Nicholas Analyzes AI Agents
The GoLaxy Revelations: China's AI-Driven Influence Operations, with Brett Goldstein, Brett Benson, and Renée DiResta
Sen. Scott Wiener on California Senate Bill 53
AI and Energy: What do we know? What are we learning?
AI Safety Meet Trust & Safety with Ravi Iyer and David Sullivan
Rapid Response: California Governor Newsom Signs SB-53
The Ivory Tower and AI (Live from IHS's Technology, Liberalism, and Abundance Conference).
AI and Young Minds: Navigating Mental Health Risks with Renee DiResta and Jess Miers
AI Copyright Lawsuits with Pam Samuelson
AI and the Future of Work: Joshua Gans on Navigating Job Displacement
The State of AI Safety with Steven Adler
Contrasting and Conflicting Efforts to Regulate Big Tech: EU v. US
Uncle Sam Buys In: Examining the Intel Deal
AI in the Classroom with MacKenzie Price, Alpha School co-founder, and Rebecca Winthrop, leader of the Brookings Global Task Force on AI in Education
The Open Questions Surrounding Open Source AI with Nathan Lambert and Keegan McBride
Export Controls: Janet Egan, Sam Winter-Levy, and Peter Harrell on the White House's Semiconductor Decision
Navigating AI Policy: Dean Ball on Insights from the White House
The Legal Maze of AI Liability: Anat Lior on Bridging Law and Emerging Tech
Values in AI: Safety, Ethics, and Innovation with OpenAI's Brian Fuller
Because of Woke: Renée DiResta and Alan Rozenshtein on the ‘Woke AI’ Executive Order
Moving the AGI Goal Posts: AI Skepticism with Sayash Kapoor
A New AI Regulatory Regime? SB 813 with Lauren Wagner and Andrew Freedman
AI Action Plan: Janet Egan, Jessica Brandt, Neil Chilson, and Tim Fist
Lt. Gen Jack Shanahan: Defense's AI Integration
Eugene Volokh: Navigating Libel and Liability in the AI Age
Cass Madison and Zach Boyd: State Level AI Regulation
Ethan Mollick: Navigating the Uncertainty of AI Development
The AI Moratorium Goes Down in Flames
TRAILER: SCALING LAWS
Matt Perault, Ramya Krishnan, and Alan Rozenshtein Talk About the TikTok Divestment and Ban Bill
Jawboning at the Supreme Court
How Are the TikTok Bans Holding Up in Court?
Jeff Horwitz on Broken Code and Reporting on Facebook
Will Generative AI Reshape Elections?
The Crisis Facing Efforts to Counter Election Disinformation
Talking AI with Data and Society’s Janet Haven
What Impact did Facebook Have on the 2020 Elections?
Brian Fishman on Violent Extremism and Platform Liability
Cox and Wyden on Section 230 and Generative AI
An Interview with Meta’s Chief Privacy Officers
Eugene Volokh on AI Libel
A TikTok Ban and the First Amendment
Ravi Iyer on How to Improve Technology Through Design
Does Section 230 Protect ChatGPT?
ChatGPT Tells All
When States Make Tech Policy
Rick Hasen and Nate Persily on Replatforming Trump on Social Media
A Member of Meta’s Oversight Board Discusses the Board’s New Decision
Decentralized Social Media and the Great Twitter Exodus
The Supreme Court Takes On 230
Mark Bergen on the Rise and Rise of YouTube
The Fifth Circuit is Wrong on the Internet
When Lawyers Spread Disinformation
The Corporate Law Behind Musk v. Twitter
Online Speech and Section 230 After Dobbs
When Doctors Spread Disinformation
What We Talk About When We Talk About Algorithms
The Jan. 6 Committee Takes On the Big Lie
Rebroadcast: The Most Intense Online Disinformation Event in American History
Defamation, Disinformation, and the Depp-Heard Trial
The Supreme Court Blocks the Texas Social Media Law
Bringing in the Content Moderation Auditors
Social Media Platforms and the Buffalo Shooting
The Platforms versus Texas in the Supreme Court
When Governments Turn Off the Internet
Pay Attention to Europe’s Digital Services Act
The Professionalization of Content Moderation
Taylor Lorenz on Taking Internet Culture Seriously
Bringing Evidence of War Crimes From Twitter to the Hague
How the Press and the Platforms Handled the Hunter Biden Laptop
What’s in the U.K. Online Safety Bill?
Getting Information Into Russia
How Open-Source Investigators are Documenting the War in Ukraine
How Tech Platforms are Navigating the War in Ukraine
You Can’t Handle the Truth (Social)
The Information War in Ukraine
The Nuts and Bolts of Social Media Transparency
Spotify Faces the Content Moderation Music
Is Block Party the Future of Content Moderation?
Defunding the Insurrectionists
Why the Online Advertising Market is Broken
Podcasts Are the Laboratories of Misinformation
Content Moderation After January 6
Working Toward Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation
Free the Data!
Content Moderation’s Original ‘Decider’
How Zoom Thinks About Content Moderation
Rational Security's The 'Nothing To Be Thankful For' Edition
The Facebook Oversight Board, One Year On
Video Games Cannot Escape the Content Moderation Reckoning
What Is Integrity in Social Media?
The SEC and the Facebook Papers
Twitter’s Head of Public Policy Explains the Company’s Advice to Regulators
Finstas, Falsehoods and the First Amendment
Russia Cracks Down on Social Media
Defamation Down Under
Inside the Facebook Files
The Broken Rube Goldberg Machine of Online Advertising
Content Moderation Comes for Parler and Gettr
The Disinformation Industrial Complex
Why the Taliban Can’t Use Facebook
Facebook Shuts Down Research On Itself
With Disinformation, The Past Isn’t Past
Facebook’s Thoughts on Its Oversight Board
The FBI, Social Media and Jan. 6
Facebook v. the White House: Renee DiResta and Brendan Nyhan Weigh In
Florida Man Regulates Social Media
Can America Save the News?
Coordinating Inauthentic Behavior With Facebook’s Head of Security Policy
Information Operations, Then and Now
A TikTok Tick Tock
The Empire (Facebook) Strikes Back (at the Oversight Board’s Trump Decision)
The Arrival of International Human Rights Law in Content Moderation
The Christchurch Call, Two Years On
The Disinformation Nextdoor
The Facebook Oversight Board Rules on Trump
Israel’s 'Cyber Unit' and Extra-legal Content Take-downs
The Challenges of Audio Content Moderation
Twitter, Facial Recognition and the First Amendment
The Truth About Conspiracy Theories
Tech CEOs Head to the Hill, Again
YouTube, We Have a Problem
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Section 230 Reform
Content Moderation and the First Amendment for Dummies
Emily Bell on Journalism in the Platform Era
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Australia, Facebook and the Future of Journalism
Chinmayi Arun on India and the Future of the Internet
Ben Smith on Gatekeepers in the Internet Age
Lawfare Enters the Substack Discourse
Joan Donovan on Disinformation and Social Movements
Information Disorder During and After the Trump Presidency
Jonathan Zittrain on the Great Deplatforming
No One Expects the Spanish Disinformation
The Vaccine Misinformation Cometh
Can Democracies Play Offense on Disinformation?
Collaborating to Counter Violent Extremism Online
The Most Intense Online Disinformation Event in American History
Marietje Schaake on Reclaiming Democratic Control of the Internet
Casey Newton on Four Years of Platform Chaos
How to Report on Hacks and Disinformation
Maria Ressa on the Weaponization of Social Media
Yochai Benkler on Mass-Media Disinformation Campaigns
Everything Is On Fire
Nina Jankowicz on 'How to Lose the Information War'
Ben Nimmo on the Return of the Internet Research Agency
Alissa Starzak on Cloudflare, Content Moderation and the Internet Stack
Emma Llansó on the Most Important Content Moderation Database You’ve Never Heard Of
Alex Stamos on Fighting Election Disinformation in Real Time
Shane Huntley on Countering Digital Threats at Google
Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny Explain QAnon
Jillian C. York on Free Expression on a Broken Internet
Hany Farid on Deep Fakes, Doctored Photos and Disinformation
Jane Lytvynenko on Debunking the Disinformation Garbage Fire
Brandi Collins-Dexter on COVID-19 Misinformation and Black Communities
Darius Kazemi on The Great Bot Panic
Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner on Our Polluted Information Environment
Laura Rosenberger on Chinese Information Operations
Eileen Donahoe on Protecting Free Expression Online
Ryan Merkley on Why Wikipedia Works
Gabrielle Lim on the Life and Death of Malaysia's Anti-Fake News Act
Deen Freelon on Why Black Trolls Matter
Craig Silverman on Real Reporting on Fake News
Aric Toler on How Not to Report on Disinformation
Thomas Rid on 'Active Measures,' Part 2
Charlie Warzel on the Pandemic Internet
Camille François on Covid-19 and the ABCs of Disinformation
Kate Klonick and Alina Polyakova on Pandemics, Platform Governance and Geopolitics
Nate Persily Asks Whether Democracy Can Survive the Internet
Baybars Örsek on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fact-Checking
Kate Starbird on Pandemics and Infodemics
Joshua R. Fattal on Fighting Disinformation with the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Bridget Barrett and Daniel Kreiss on the Chaos of Social Media Advertising
Lisa Kaplan and Sophie Lawton on Clickbait Craft Videos and Influence Campaigns
Brendan Nyhan on the Empirical Effects of Disinformation
Alex Stamos on the Hard Tradeoffs of the Internet
Elise Thomas on Disinformation and the Australia Fires
Renee DiResta on Disinformation and Misinformation From Vaccines to the GRU
Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron on Deep Fakes
Is Block Party the Future of Content Moderation?
Defunding the Insurrectionists
Why the Online Advertising Market is Broken