Interview Only w/ David French - America’s AI Liability Crisis & Constitutional Breaking Points

About this episode

David French discusses the legal implications of AI and constitutional issues in America.

David French — New York Times columnist, veteran constitutional attorney, and one of the sharpest legal thinkers writing today — joins the Chuck Toddcast for a riveting conversation about how the legal system is straining to handle a world being remade by AI, an out-of-control executive branch, and the slow erosion of America's basic constitutional architecture. French opens with the chilling case the Florida Attorney General has now brought against OpenAI in connection with the Florida State University shooter, who asked ChatGPT how to disengage his weapon's safety just three minutes before opening fire. French argues that if ChatGPT had been a human person, it would unquestionably have been charged as a co-conspirator — humans get prosecuted for encouraging suicide all the time — and that when ChatGPT is speaking, OpenAI is legally speaking, full stop. He walks through the murky liability questions the law is now scrambling to answer: Google Search has never been held to the same standard as ChatGPT, but ChatGPT actively generates new speech rather than just pointing users to existing content, and French argues that litigation needs to function as a…

People in this episode

Host: Chuck Todd

Guest: David French

Topics covered

• AI liability
• constitutional law
• executive branch
• legal system
• civil lawsuits
• regulation

Keywords

• AI regulation
• legal liability
• constitutional crisis
• OpenAI
• ChatGPT
• civil lawsuits
• Trump
• Florida Attorney General

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times, OpenAI

Places: Florida, Florida State University

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