I'm I could have asked Bard or ChatGPT to write me an intro for this episode.

I didn't, mainly because our subject needs no introduction.

Interest in artificial intelligence has exploded.

Interest in regulating artificial intelligence has exploded, too.

At least in Washington it has.

When it comes to AI, we seem to be speed running the new technology panic cycle.

Welcome to the Tech Policy podcast.

I'm Corbyn Barthold.

Here to speak with me about the push to regulate AI is Adam Thier, a resident senior fellow in technology and innovation at the

R Street Institute. Adam is practically an AI policy think tank unto himself. We're going to pack

the show notes with his recent work in this area, and I hope to get to a lot of it in our

conversation today.

Adam, welcome back to the show.

Thanks. It's great to be back.

We just relaunched. We've revamped. We've done everything.

And I'm so glad you're one of our very first guests on the new and improved tech policy podcast.

We've got a cutting edge topic for our hopefully now cutting edge podcast.

One thing that I just, this is all moving so fast.

Even just this morning, on the morning of our recording,

we got a, was it a one-sentence letter signed on by a bunch of people expressing fear about AI and maybe we can get to that?

And in that one sentence, there's nothing about the promise of AI.

I think it is just all too easy to lose amid all of the doomsaying on AI the benefits, the wave of benefits we have coming our way because of AI technology in the near and medium term future. So I want to put that front and

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