Lawfare Daily: Ryan Calo on Protecting Privacy Amid Advances in AI
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Calo, Professor of Law at the University of Washington, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss how advances in AI are undermining already insufficient privacy protections. The two dive into Calo's recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Their conversation also covers the novel privacy issues presented by AI and the merits of different regulatory strategies at both the state and federal level.
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| 0:31.0 | Techniques that are used to derive sensitive things about us are fine if we understand |
| 0:37.7 | what's going on and they're used to our benefit. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm worried that that's not the incentives that corporate America has in all contexts. |
| 0:47.0 | It's the Lawfair Podcast. I'm Kevin Frazier, assistant professor at St Thomas University College of Law |
| 0:53.2 | and a Tarbell fellow at law fair with Ryan Kalo |
| 0:56.4 | professor of law at the University of Washington. |
| 0:59.7 | The nature of the internet and AI is everything is distributed all over the place. |
| 1:05.9 | And many of the harms that we're worried about might originate outside the United States altogether, |
| 1:11.4 | but at a minimum they cross over state lines. You know what I mean? |
| 1:15.5 | It's really kind of exactly what the Constitution has the Commerce Clause for. |
| 1:21.0 | Today we're talking about AI and privacy protections, or should I say lack thereof. |
| 1:26.0 | Professor Alicia Solo Niederman warns that we now live in an inference economy. |
| 1:32.0 | Ryan, in your July 11th statement to the hearing on the |
| 1:36.2 | need to protect Americans privacy and the AI accelerant held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, |
| 1:42.0 | Science and Transportation, you warn that this new |
| 1:45.0 | inference economy creates a quote serious gap in privacy protections. Let's break that down a little bit. |
| 1:52.2 | What is this inference economy mean? What are we worried |
| 1:56.6 | about here in this inference economy? |
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