ListenSourcesas of 2026-11-13
- Ben Buchanan Wants the U.S. to Win on AI. But Is It a Race or a Trap?
Our guest this week is Ben Buchanan, who served as President Biden’s senior advisor on AI and helped write the first federal AI policy, including the original export controls on GPUs going to China. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on AI governance, and he had a seat at…
- Freedom House Charts 'Seismic Shifts' on the Global Internet
Each year, Tech Policy Press makes it a priority to cover the findings of the annual Freedom on the Net report from Freedom House, a nonprofit organization founded in 1941 to advance democracy and human rights. This year, Justin Hendrix was invited to moderate a panel discussion…
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- Assessing the Impact of the Midterm Elections on US Tech Policy
The United States midterm election season proved that tech policy is no longer a side issue in American elections. AI, data centers and the political power of Big Tech and oligarchs like Elon Musk are now things candidates have to take a position on — and voters are paying close…
- The AI backlash needs a plan
Democrats have a mandate to rein in frontier labs, data centers, and more. Can they deliver without repeating their mistakes from the social-media era? Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/thursday-newsletter-7/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in…
- Teaser: Mike & Ben Review The Social Reckoning
In this special bonus episode for our Patreon supporters, Mike and Ben share their reactions to The Social Reckoning , Aaron Sorkin’s much anticipated (but it seems not much loved) followup to his acclaimed 2010 movie The Social Network . This free teaser covers the beginning o…
- A Midterm Night’s Dream
Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover. In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover: Lula’s Win Signals Fight to Regulate Social Media Will Escalate in Brazil (TechPolicy.Press) Meta Employees…
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- What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common
AI search is underperforming for Google, and it's killing Reddit's traffic. What now? Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/thursday-newsletter-6/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Why Silicon Valley Wants to Leave Humanity Behind
Behind the AI race, there's a philosophy with an intellectual lineage and a body of work that holds that human beings are a defective early draft, that the things that make us humans are bugs to be fixed, that this planet is expendable and we can move on to the next. And that th…
- Flock Cameras and the Fourth Amendment with Orin Kerr | Eugene Volokh | Hoover Institution
Do you have a right to privacy on public roads? Eugene Volokh welcomes Hoover fellow and Stanford legal scholar Orin Kerr to discuss Flock cameras, the networked license plate readers fueling debate over police surveillance. They discuss how the Fourth Amendment applies to track…
- Can the President Kick Reporters Out of the White House? | Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer | Hoover Institution
When President Trump moved to bar CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over "biased" coverage, it set off a fast-moving legal showdown. Today, Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer break down why the law was surprisingly clear-cut. Drawing on a 50-year-old D.C. Circuit prec…