Description

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

Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media

Tech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification