Bytes: Week in Review — SCOTUS to hear TikTok case, Congress unveils AI roadmap, and the year ahead for robotaxis

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence released a lengthy report this week that doesn’t recommend any specific policies or bills. We’ll also look ahead at what the new year could bring the robotaxi business. But first, the TikTok ban is heading to the Supreme Court. A federal appeals court last week upheld the law that would ban the short-form video app if its Chinese owners don’t sell it by Jan. 19. TikTok asked the court to weigh in, and this week SCOTUS agreed. Lily Jamali, tech correspondent at the BBC, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to discuss the news.

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0:00.0	A congressional roadmap for AI policy that's short on destinations.
0:07.4	From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.
0:10.4	I'm Megan McCarty Carino.
0:20.7	The House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence released a 250-page report this week that doesn't actually recommend any specific policies or bills.
0:32.4	It's just one of the topics we'll be digging into for today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review. We'll also look
0:39.0	ahead at what the new year could bring the Robotaxy business, but first, the TikTok ban is heading
0:45.8	to the Supreme Court. Last week, a federal appeals court upheld the law that would ban the short form
0:51.7	video app if its Chinese owners don't sell it by January 19th.
0:56.9	TikTok asked the high court to weigh in, and this week, Scotis agreed.
1:01.7	Here with more on what it means is Lily Jamali. She's a tech correspondent for the BBC.
1:06.9	The parties in this case, so that would be the government lawyers that are defending the law, as well as TikTok and bite dance, as well as a bunch of content creators that are joining with TikTok in this suit, they all asked for the appeals court to make a call on this by December 6th for this exact reason so that the Supreme Court would have
1:29.3	the opportunity to weigh in if they want to. They have taken that opportunity. Yes, it's only nine
1:34.6	days, but, you know, I think it's pretty likely that we will get some kind of decision. But
1:39.5	ultimately, you know, this is a clash between national security concerns and free speech rights.
1:46.5	I think that, you know, the Supreme Court justices are somewhat well versed in those issues,
1:52.2	but this overlay of technology and this app that I doubt any of the justices happen to be on,
1:59.5	you know, kind of throwing a wrench into things. They are going to
2:02.0	have to read up on this a little bit anyway, and it'll be interesting to see what they decide.
2:07.1	Yeah, it's interesting. We've had a number of folks on the show, you know, that have an interest
2:12.2	in this. We had one of the plaintiffs, actually, one of the TikTok creators who is a plaintiff in
2:17.4	the case. We've had a number
2:18.7	of legal scholars. And it is this kind of clash of First Amendment versus national security.
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