Hello and I'm

welcome to a special joint podcast episode on AI regulation.

I'm your host Danny Crane and I'm the host of

Securities by Lux Capital a podcast and newsletter devoted to science technology

finance and the human condition. Co-hosting with me today is Brian McCullough, the host of Tech Meams Ride Home Podcast, which focuses on the day's news headlines, context, and conversation.

Also joining with me today is Matthew Lindley, the founder and writer of Supervised, a

sub-stack newsletter devoted to the machine learning AI and business space.

And finally, joining me is Lux Capital General Partner Shaheen Farsi.

Today's podcast is focused on a huge range of AI regulations.

There's just been a surge of attention

from US, UK, and European policy makers

around the threat of artificial intelligence,

their concerns about it, and the risks existentially and whatnot

around AI technologies.

Over the last two weeks we've seen President Joe Biden introduce his massive AI executive order

we saw over the United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announcing the Bletchley Declaration of

principles around AI development and the European Union

continues to strive towards a law around AI regulation that has been going on for

about two years but has made a little bit more progress over the last few weeks

and so I want to talk about today just why but has made a little bit more progress over the last few weeks.

And so I want to talk about today just why our regulators so focus on this subject,

what they're trying to do, and also some of our concerns about how that might squelch

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