433: AI and the First Amendment

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold, Santana Boulton, and Andy Jung discuss whether AI promotes free speech, why AI outputs are protected free expression, why Anthropic should win its First Amendment lawsuit against the Department of War, and much else besides. Links: AI + 1A: Why the First Amendment Protects Artificial Intelligence (https://tinyurl.com/4syfps2h) Don’t Ban Kids From Using Chatbots (https://tinyurl.com/bdd3a7ju) Heaven’s Gate—How and When It May Be Entered (https://tinyurl.com/2rxd35bd)

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0:00.0	The The butlerian jihad is here.
0:28.3	We've done so many AI episodes,
0:31.7	but I think this one is extra important.
0:36.0	AI is now polling down there with ICE and the Democratic Party. A lot of people
0:43.2	really don't like it, and there's growing momentum to regulate. I'm at least somewhat skeptical
0:50.6	about most of what's being proposed, But when they come for AI as speech,
0:58.1	that's what gets me truly riled up. Welcome back to the Tech Policy podcast. I'm Corbyn Barthold.
1:08.4	I'm pleased to be joined by two of my favorite guests,
1:13.1	Tech Freedom's Own, Andy Young and Santana Bolton.
1:17.6	We're going to talk about brewing and ongoing controversies
1:21.6	about AI and free expression,
1:24.9	AI and the First Amendment,
1:27.3	and, darn it, AI and the American Way.
1:32.5	We'll be wandering from the fever swamps of social media to the halls of Congress, to the Pentagon.
1:39.7	Going to be a great show.
1:42.5	Andy, Santana, welcome to you both.
1:46.2	Hi, Corbin.
1:48.0	Great to be here.
1:50.0	I actually looked up the Dune reference because I nowadays raise the Butlerian jihad so often.
2:00.3	Dune has a 34,000 year fictional timeline that it works
2:07.0	through in the 50 novels or whatever it is. The butlerian jihad, for those who need a
2:13.4	refresher, is this point somewhere around year 10,000 in this timeline when there was a war
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