398: AI Policy Potpourri (Part Two)

Tech Policy Podcast

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold, Andy Jung, and Santana Boulton continue their discussion of the many, many things going on in AI innovation, competition, and regulation. Topics include: - The Lina Khan AI crackdown (that we averted) - What’s next for the FTC and AI? - (More) AI culture war - 600 state AI bills (might be 600 too many) - Blackpilled about Europe - Micromanaged deregulation (is not a thing) - Will the EU become unaligned? Links: Don’t California My Texas: Stargate Edition (https://tinyurl.com/3t85ay79) The European Commission’s (Anti)Competitiveness Compass (https://tinyurl.com/57y82j5f) How Liberal Democracy Might Lose the 21st Century (https://tinyurl.com/3zusc46f) Tech Policy Podcast 394: Tech and Trump 2.0 (https://tinyurl.com/28tu6bnb)

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the tech policy podcast.
0:26.5	I'm Corbyn Barthold.
0:28.5	I'm joined once again by my tech freedom colleagues, Santana Bolton and Andy Young.
0:35.1	We are here to continue our conversation about AI policy. In our last
0:41.9	episode, part one, we covered where AI is going. The Biden administration transitioning into the Trump
0:51.8	administration and what the two have done on AI, what we might expect
0:56.6	from the Trump administration going forward, then some stray thoughts on Operation Stargate,
1:03.1	and we had to cover Deepseek. So if you're interested in any of those subjects,
1:07.2	please do go back and listen to Part 1.
1:11.6	With that said, onward to Part 2, we have so much to dive into here.
1:15.6	A lot of brass tacks about AI regulation and where it might be headed.
1:20.6	We will be starting out with the Federal Trade Commission.
1:25.6	Andy, I know that you've been thinking a lot about what's going on here.
1:30.5	In part one, when we talked about AI, we did devote some time to looking back on the Biden
1:35.0	administration before going into the Trump administration.
1:38.9	Let's do the same thing here.
1:40.8	Start out maybe with a bit of a post-mortem about what Lena Kahn's FTC did with AI.
1:47.9	This is a very nascent market.
1:50.6	It's not at all clear who the winners and the losers will be.
1:54.4	And yet she was extraordinarily active, or at least it seemed, as she was trying to dive right in.
2:00.1	So could you tell us a bit about what the con FTC did here?
2:05.1	Almost as soon as everyone started debating, actually just as soon as everyone started
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