Rational Security: The “Regulatory Cage Match” Edition
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🗓️ 5 November 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri to tackle some of the overlooked national security stories that have been percolating the past few weeks, including:
- “BrokenAI?” The Biden administration has rolled out a groundbreaking new Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence that seeks to take the first steps towards a real regulatory regime for this revolutionary technology. Is this a responsible step? Or does it threaten to put the U.S. development of AI in a regulatory cage?
- “Ending the Fracas in Caracas.” The Biden administration is taking a step towards thawing relations with the Maduro regime in Venezuela, easing sanctions at least temporarily in exchange for the release of political prisoners and a promise to hold competitive elections—though Maduro has yet to agree to ensure that most prominent opposition figures will be allowed to participate. Is this a smart way forward or folly?
- “Let’s Get Mikey to Do It, He’ll Try Anything.” We have a new Speaker of the House in the form of Rep. Mike Johnson. And he has decided to open his speakership with a bold move: separating aid from Israel out from other emergency measures and insisting that it be funded by cuts from the Internal Revenue Service—a move that President Biden has promised to veto and that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has come out publicly against. What does this tell us about the direction Congress is headed in the weeks to come?
For object lessons, Alan shared a bit of comedy in the form of Jeff Maurer’s satire of statements on the Gaza conflict, “Windex Ain’t Scared.” Quinta recommended the second season of “Our Flag Means Death” for a delightful romcom about bloodthirsty pirates. Scott celebrated the power of love. And Eugenia recommended the video game Pillars of Eternity for those desperate to play Baldur’s Gate III but whose computers cannot handle it.
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| 1:04.0 | I'm Caleb Benjamin, Internet Law Fair with an episode of Rational Security for November 5th, 2003. For today's episode, the team at Lawfair decided to cross post this week's episode of Rational Security. |
| 1:09.0 | A podcast hosted by Scott R. Anderson, Quinto Jurassic, and Alan Rosenstein, in which they cover the week's big national security news stories. |
| 1:16.0 | Today's episode is entitled the Regulatory Cage Match Edition. |
| 1:20.0 | In the episode, Anderson, Jurassic and Rosenstein sat down with A Eugenio Lostri to discuss the Biden administration's executive order on AI, easing of sanctions on Venezuela in exchange for the release of political prisoners in a promise to hold competitive elections, |
| 1:34.0 | the start of new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's tenure, and more. |
| 1:38.0 | This is rational security. |
| 1:40.0 | So Alan, we had a fairly wintry Halloween here in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:46.3 | How was it in Minnesota? |
| 1:47.3 | And what did you and your son go as in your family? |
| 1:51.5 | Do you have a family theme costume this year? |
| 1:53.4 | So we had a very wintry Halloween as well. It snowed quite a bit the night before. |
| 1:57.6 | Oh, wow. |
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