Anthropic, age verification laws, and press freedom

Several stories have put government power over speech and technology back in the spotlight.

In this episode, we break down the Pentagon’s targeting of the AI company Anthropic, the push for government-mandated age verification technologies, and the Department of Justice’s raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home.

We are joined by:

• Jennifer Huddleston, senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute

• Mike Godwin, AI and privacy expert, first staff counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, first full-time general counsel at Wikimedia, and author of two books on internet law and policy

• Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of FIRE

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

03:19 The Pentagon vs. Anthropic?

22:40 The FTC, Congress, and age verification laws

48:15 Is it unusual for the DOJ to seize a reporter’s computer?

59:46 Outro

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