Age Against the Machine

About this episode

Mike Masnick and guest Jess Miers discuss recent news in online speech, content moderation, and internet regulation.

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by Jess Miers, law professor at University of Akron School of Law. Together, they discuss: AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)OpenAI’s Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian community after failing to flag mass shooter’s conversations with its AI chatbot (CNN)OpenAI And Sam Altman Could Face Dozens More Lawsuits Over School Shooting In British Columbia, Lawyer Sa...

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike Masnick, Ben Whitelaw

Guest: Jess Miers

Topics covered

• online speech
• content moderation
• internet regulation
• AI chatbots
• legal issues
• news roundup

Keywords

• AI chatbots
• content moderation
• OpenAI
• internet regulation
• legal issues
• John Oliver

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Akron School of Law, OpenAI, CNN, HBO

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