At The Money: Fan Favorite - Algorithmic Harm
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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On this fan favorite episode of "At The Money", Barry speaks with Cass Sunstein, professor at Harvard Law School and co-author of the book, “Algorithmic Harm: Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. Previously he co-authored “Nudge” with Nobel Laureate Dick Thaler.
They discuss whether all this algorithmic impact is helping or harming people.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Hannah Frye, and as we rely more and more on artificial intelligence in every facet of our lives and businesses, |
| 0:07.7 | I'm on a mission to find out how we can build the internet that AI needs. |
| 0:12.8 | Learn more later in the podcast. |
| 0:15.1 | At Radio Lab, we love nothing more than nerding out about science, neuroscience,cience, chemistry. But, but we do also like to |
| 0:23.7 | get into other kinds of stories, stories about policing or politics, country music, hockey, sex, |
| 0:30.6 | of bugs. Regardless of whether we're looking at science or not science, we bring a rigorous |
| 0:35.9 | curiosity to get you the answers. |
| 0:38.4 | And hopefully make you see the world anew. |
| 0:39.9 | Radio Lab, adventures on the edge of what we think we know. |
| 0:43.8 | Wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:47.6 | Bloomberg Audio Studios. |
| 0:50.0 | Podcasts Radio News. |
| 1:10.6 | So, go, no. Podcasts Radio News. Algorithms are everywhere. |
| 1:14.0 | They determine the price you pay for your Uber, what gets fed to you on TikTok and |
| 1:19.6 | Instagram, and even the prices you pay in the supermarket. |
| 1:25.1 | Is all of this algorithmic impact helping or harming people? |
| 1:30.4 | To answer that question, let's bring in Cass Sunstein. |
| 1:34.1 | He is the author of a new book, |
| 1:36.3 | Algorithmic Harm, Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, |
| 1:41.1 | co-written with Orrin Bargill. |
| 1:43.6 | Cass is also a professor at Harvard Law School and is perhaps best known for his books on Star Wars |
| 1:51.5 | and co-authoring Nudge with Nobel laureate, Dick Thaler. |
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