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“The platforms should be absolutely begging Congress to regulate them, because the alternative is they get sued into oblivion by a bunch of law firms.”
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Hosted by
Kevin Roose
and
Casey Newton
Produced by
Whitney Jones
and
Rachel Cohn
Edited by
Vjeran Pavic
Engineered by
Chris Wood
Original music by
Dan Powell
Elisheba Ittoop
and
Marion Lozano
Last week, two separate juries held social media companies liable for harming young users. We unpack what these landmark decisions mean — not only for the future of social platforms like Meta and YouTube, but also for A.I. chatbots. Then, Sebastian Mallaby, the author of “The Infinity Machine,” joins us to talk about the three years he spent with Demis Hassabis and those closest to Google DeepMind. And finally, we catch up on some of our favorite tech headlines from the week with a round of HatGPT.
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Sebastian Mallaby
, author of “The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence.”
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