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 primer - The ballad of Helen Palsgraf - Causation, shmausation - Speech =/= product - Ideas are powerful. (That’s the point!) - “Addiction.” You keep using that word … - ♪ Junk science ♪ - AI, suicide, and you Links: Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad (https://tinyurl.com/38h8ymsm) Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media (https://tinyurl.com/2d4h54w7) Tech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification (https://tinyurl.com/44srprp6)
Ari Cohn (FIRE) and Tom Kurland (Patterson Belknap) discuss the spate of product-liability lawsuits against social-media and AI companies.
Topics include:
Links:
Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad
Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media