397: AI Policy Potpourri (Part One)

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold, Andy Jung, and Santana Boulton take you on a tour of the many, many things going on in AI innovation, competition, and regulation. Topics include: - First signs of AI escape velocity? - Automated luxury libertarianism - The Trumpian vibe shift - AI culture war - The AI $$$$ bonfire - The one-week DeepSeek freakout - Is regulation futile? Links: Tyler Cowen on OpenAI’s Deep Research (https://tinyurl.com/mukeekp3) Dwarkesh Patel on fully automated firms (https://tinyurl.com/y6a6m2dh) Trump Signs AI and Tech Executive Orders (https://tinyurl.com/2a46hd5m) Some Simple Lessons From China’s Big AI Breakthrough (https://tinyurl.com/2s3rtffd) Tech Giants Double Down on Their Massive AI Spending (https://tinyurl.com/9jaxade8)

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0:00.0	Welcome. Welcome back to the tech policy podcast.
0:27.7	I'm Corbyn Barthold, Internet Policy Council at Tech Freedom.
0:33.3	I'm joined today by Andy Young, our associate council, and Santana Bolton, a legal fellow here.
0:41.9	We're going to be talking about AI policy today.
0:46.2	This topic is completely insane.
0:49.9	We were discussing doing this show for a couple weeks, And it seemed like every single day something new popped up that I thought,
1:00.2	wow, we've got to throw that in and talk about it.
1:03.9	I think we are definitely headed for a two-part episode to cover as much of this landscape as we can. And I am going to dive us right in
1:15.8	with nothing more by way of introduction because I really want us to get started before more
1:21.3	stuff happens and we have to cover that too. Andy, Santana, it is so good to have you both here. Great to be here, Corbin.
1:31.9	Great to be here. So before we get into policy proper, I thought it would be good to set the
1:37.8	stage by just talking about where AI is going. We've discussed this topic on the show quite a bit,
1:44.9	but it's moving fast enough that we're actually
1:48.5	getting a lot of new information all the time.
1:51.9	It really wasn't that long ago that,
1:55.1	when Open AI first came out with its breakthrough,
1:59.0	was a chat GPT3? That was November 22.
2:02.2	And all of us noticed, if you ask the thing to give you an answer that needs to go more
2:07.6	than a couple paragraphs, it quickly goes off the rails.
2:11.4	That wasn't that long ago.
2:13.5	We just had OpenAI release deep research.
2:17.3	And now we have a chatbot.
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