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418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability

418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability

Update: 2025-09-15

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Ari Cohn (FIRE) and Tom Kurland (Patterson Belknap) discuss the spate of product-liability lawsuits against social-media and AI companies.

Topics include:

A tort law primer
The ballad of Helen Palsgraf
Causation, shmausation
Speech =/= product
Ideas are powerful. (That’s the point!)
“Addiction.” You keep using that word …
♪ Junk science ♪
AI, suicide, and you

Links:

Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad

Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media

Tech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification

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418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability

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