Lawfare Archive: AI Regulation and Free Speech: Navigating the Government’s Tightrope
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
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From November 25, 2024: At a recent conference co-hosted by Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology, Georgetown law professor Paul Ohm moderated a conversation on "AI Regulation and Free Speech: Navigating the Government’s Tightrope,” between Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein, Fordham law professor Chinny Sharma, and Eugene Volokh, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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| 0:00.0 | Nearly every news alert in 2025 has raised questions, some old, some new, about the law and national security. |
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| 0:32.8 | at gmail.com by December 16th. |
| 0:47.0 | Happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Isabella Royo, Internet Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare Archive for November 27, 2025. |
| 0:55.7 | The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence, or AI tools, has raised a wide range of questions about how we regulate speech. |
| 1:01.5 | Now, as AI-generated messaging features increasingly prominently both in political campaigns |
| 1:06.0 | and in federal government messaging, the question of AI-generated contents relationship with the First Amendment |
| 1:11.4 | is becoming still more salient. For today's archive, I selected an episode from November 25, |
| 1:16.7 | 2004, in which Paul Ome moderated a conversation between Alan Rosenstein, Cheney Sharma, |
| 1:22.5 | and Eugene Volok. They discussed the intersection of generative AI in the First Amendment, |
| 1:27.0 | how cheap speech affects free speech, the best role for government regulation, and more. |
| 1:40.8 | It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Alan Rosenstein, associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, |
| 1:46.6 | and senior editor and research director at Lawfare. |
| 1:49.3 | Today we're bringing you a conversation from a conference on AI liability |
| 1:52.7 | that Lawfare co-hosted earlier this year with the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology. |
| 1:57.9 | I'm skeptical about like a big AI law. |
| 2:01.6 | Even if we don't get to holistic AI regulation for all AI, we have agencies that address a lot of high-risk industries that might be already pretty technically confident at figuring out what kind of AI is nuclear |
| 2:19.1 | and what kind of AI is cars within their domain. |
| 2:23.0 | Georgetown Law Professor Paul Ome moderated a conversation between me, Fordham Law |
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