HEADLINE: AI Regulation Debate: Premature Laws vs. Emerging Norms GUEST NAME: Kevin Frazier SUMMARY: Kevin Frazier critiques the legislative rush to regulate AI, arguing that developing norms might be more effective than premature laws. He notes that bill
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchel. Artificial Intelligence. I welcome Kevin |
| 0:29.2 | Fraser, University of Texas Law School Fellow, as well as writing at Civitas Outlook for |
| 0:34.8 | Civitas Institute, about an area of law that is emerging as extremely |
| 0:40.5 | fun to speculate, even for non-lawyers, non-trained people such as myself, which is AI and the |
| 0:47.8 | law, guidelines, laws, rubrics, recommendations, liability. Kevin, this is a world you've opened up, and congratulations. |
| 0:57.3 | To give an example to everyone immediately, what are they talking about? |
| 1:01.5 | What role should AI play in how we resolve disputes? |
| 1:05.0 | Now, therein lies a mystery. Say two neighbors are sharing a property line where there is not clarity. |
| 1:11.7 | Do you ask AI to referee? |
| 1:13.9 | What do you make of its contribution? |
| 1:16.9 | Kevin, I started simple, but your essay in Civitas Outlook suggests that there are large questions ahead of us. |
| 1:26.8 | To your knowledge, in general, you recently |
| 1:29.5 | testified to a committee of Congress. Is this being worked on now, or are you on the frontier of |
| 1:35.4 | raising questions about what is to be done? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Thank you so much |
| 1:40.9 | for having me. As always, it's a pleasure to talk to you from here in Austin. |
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