Hello and welcome to the Reason Roundtable.

This is your weekly libertarian take on News and Culture from the editors of Reason Magazine and friends.

If you're tired of the choices offered by today's politics, you have come to the right place.

I'm your host, Peter Souterman, and today I am joined by my

illustrious colleagues, Catherine Mangu Ward, welcome back, and Nick Gillespie, as well as very

special guest, Riem Ibrahim, head of media at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. Everybody

say hello. Howdy. Hi. Hi. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for coming

on this show. Welcome. Welcome. So I see on your your ex banner, your Twitter banner, you have an

image of you. I think on like a panel or something. It says bad policy, worse outcomes, the case of

prohibitionism.

Feels like someone with that banner should be on the show.

I think you're in the spot.

Thank you.

Yeah, well, look, I mean, in the UK, we've got a lot of prohibitionist policy.

We seem to be copying 19th century United States.

So I think it was particularly fitting.

Yeah, I think we're going to talk about some of that here on the show. Happy Monday to everyone who isn't being replaced by AI, which apparently doesn't include

dead kids being used as political props to push for gun bans.

So last week, former CNN personality Jim Acosta interviewed an AI avatar, a kind of an LLM

simulation of a student who was killed in the mass

shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.

And of course, the AI version of this kid, sadly, was murdered in that mass shooting,

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