Social Media Victims Lawyer Up with Laura Marquez-Garrett

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Social media was humanity’s ‘first contact’ moment with AI. If we’re going to create laws that are strong enough to prevent AI from destroying our societies, we could benefit from taking a look at the major lawsuits against social media platforms that are playing out in our courts right now. Attorney Laura Marquez-Garrett is literally on the front lines of the battle to hold social media firms accountable for the harms they have created in young people’s lives. Listener warning: there are distressing details within the episode.

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0:00.0	In May of this year, when OpenAI's CEO,
0:02.3	Sam Altman visited Washington
0:03.8	to testify before Congress about AI.
0:06.1	I noticed that lawmakers kept connecting
0:08.2	the modern threats of AI back to social media.
0:11.4	Congress failed to meet the moment on social media.
0:14.5	Now we have the obligation to do it on AI.
0:18.2	We acted too slowly with social media.
0:20.6	Many unfortunate decisions got locked in
0:23.1	with lasting consequence.
0:24.6	So I'm deeply concerned about repeating
0:26.6	social media's failure in AI tools and application.
0:30.9	Congress thus far has demonstrally failed
0:33.3	to responsibly enact meaningful regulation
0:36.4	of social media companies.
0:39.8	These lawmakers are right to make this connection.
0:42.4	Because social media was humanity's first contact with AI,
0:46.0	a curation AI that's just selecting which post or tweet
0:49.2	or video to show you next when you flick your finger up
0:51.5	on the newsfeed.
0:52.8	So we're going to create laws that are strong enough
0:54.9	to prevent second contact with AI,
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