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Lawfare Daily: AI Policy Under Technological Uncertainty, with Alex “amac” Macgillivray

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Senior Editor at Lawfare, and Matt Perault, the Director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sat down with Alexander Macgillivray, known to all as "amac," who was the former Principle Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States in the Biden Administration and General Counsel at Twitter.

amac recently wrote a piece for Lawfare about making AI policy in a world of technological uncertainty, and Matt and Alan talked to him about how to do just that.

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There's no sort of state of nature that this uncertainty could bring us back to.

0:35.6

So the question is, under a state of uncertainty, do we like the regulatory framework

0:39.9

we currently have or do we want to build a different one?

0:44.1

It's the Law Fair Podcast.

0:45.4

I'm Alan Rosenstein, associate professor

0:47.5

at the University of Minnesota Law School

0:49.0

and senior editor at Law Fair.

0:50.8

Co-hosting with Matt Peralt,

0:52.3

the director of the Center on Technology Policy

0:54.4

at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

0:57.0

We're talking with Alexander McGillibri, known to all as Amac, who was the former Principal

1:01.4

Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States and the Biden administration and general counsel at Twitter.

1:07.0

I mean it won't surprise you to hear that I'm of neither camp in terms of it being completely protected versus completely unprotected.

1:16.0

I do think we are going to have a lot of trouble with some of the types of regulation that certainly many people have been calling for.

1:25.0

AIMAC recently wrote a piece for law fair about making AI policy in a world of technological uncertainty,

1:31.0

and Matt and I talked to him about how to do just that.

1:34.1

So you served as principal deputy chief technology officer in the Biden administration and

1:38.9

as deputy CEO in the Obama administration.

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