{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcast.techfreedom.org%2Fepisodes%2F418-algorithms-ai-and-product-liability-B8jNMXej","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/50bb570b-2d48-4cba-8eac-4d8a2c843965/3e53ef26-f16a-4adc-b234-37f20d9e9d9b/tpp-20v3.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/a5eb8179-0310-453b-b792-3ce9760981eb\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"418: Algorithms, AI, and Product Liability\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Ari Cohn (FIRE) and Tom Kurland (Patterson Belknap) discuss the spate of product-liability lawsuits against social-media and AI companies.\nTopics include:\n\n- A tort law primer\n- The ballad of Helen Palsgraf\n- Causation, shmausation\n- Speech =/= product\n- Ideas are powerful. (That’s the point!)\n- “Addiction.” You keep using that word …\n- ♪ Junk science ♪\n- AI, suicide, and you\n\nLinks:\nTech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad (https://tinyurl.com/38h8ymsm)\n\nTech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media (https://tinyurl.com/2d4h54w7)\n\nTech Policy Podcast 310: Algorithmic Amplification (https://tinyurl.com/44srprp6)"}