Inside The Complex Policy Battle Over AI

Federalist Radio Hour

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Neil Chilson, former FTC chief technologist and head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to sort through the fact and fiction about artificial intelligence, explain AI's role in the job market, health care, and politics, and examine the legal challenges that come with governing its use.

You can find Chilson's book Getting Out of Control: Emergent Leadership in a Complex World here.

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1:44.9	Our guest today is Neil Chilson, former FTC chief technologist and currently head of AI
1:51.3	policy with the Abundance Institute.
1:54.7	Where are we taking artificial intelligence?
1:59.0	Where is artificial intelligence taking us? We ask those questions and
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