And I think now we can think that cost-benefit analysis is part of that.

Yeah.

And that it is itself, its benefits don't outweigh its costs.

And what's ironic is like they never turn that on themselves, right?

They never turn themselves.

Oh, no way.

Yeah. Welcome to the Death Panel.

Today, we're joined by Frank Pasquale.

Frank is one of the sharpest researchers of the legal regulation of algorithmic ranking,

scoring, and sorting systems among many other topics.

So it's a real treat to have them today.

Hi, Frank.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for coming.

Oh, thanks for having me.

It's a real pleasure to be here.

I've enjoyed many past broadcasts, and so thank you.

So we asked you on to talk about some of the topics that were raised in a recent piece of yours, which was the introduction to a symposium hosted by the

Law and Political Economy Project blog, which, you know, basically the theme of it is sort

of challenging the future of cost-benefit analysis. And I was wondering to start us off,

Frank, do you mind briefly outlining for listeners, you know, what is the symposium and what these pieces are kind of trying to argue?

Sure.

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