Lawfare Daily: Rebecca Crootof on AI, DARPA, and the ELSI Framework
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Rebecca Crootof, Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law and the inaugural ELSI Visiting Scholar at DARPA, joins Kevin Frazier, a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss the weaponization of emerging technologies and her role as the inaugural ELSI Visiting Scholar at DARPA. This conversation explores the possibility of an AI arms race, the value of multidisciplinarity within research institutions, and means to establish guardrails around novel uses of technology.
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| 0:30.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:38.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent, Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:45.2 | All right. Roger Junior and his dog Roger Senior. And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:51.4 | But like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:54.8 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. |
| 0:57.6 | Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us. |
| 1:00.1 | P, and O'Ferees, that is another way. |
| 1:17.2 | Take a second to have a conversation about, okay, you're trying to do this and if you're wildly successful, what else is that going to mean? What are going to be the implications of that? |
| 1:19.6 | Who's going to benefit from that? |
| 1:21.1 | Who could be harmed by that? Who's going to feel threatened by that, who might |
| 1:24.9 | want access to that. |
| 1:27.6 | It's the Law Fair Podcast. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm Kevin Frazier, assistant professor at St Thomas University College of Law |
| 1:33.4 | and a Tarbell Fellow at Law Fair, with Rebecca Krutof, |
| 1:36.9 | Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law, |
| 1:40.4 | and the |
| 1:45.0 | darpa has hired someone to raise these questions and to encourage everybody to be thinking about |
| 1:51.0 | these things and again not to say there aren't plenty of folks |
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