This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast features part 1 of our two-part interview with Paul Stephan, author of The World Crisis and International Law – a deeper and more entertaining read than the title suggests. Paul lays out the long historical arc that links the 1980s to the present day. It's not a pretty picture, and it gets worse as he ties those changes to the demands of the Knowledge Economy. How will these profound political and economic clashes resolve themselves? We'll cover that in part 2.
Meanwhile, in the news roundup, I tweak Sam Altman for his relentless embrace of regulation for his industry during testimony last week in the Senate. I compare him to another Sam with a similar regulation-embracing approach to Washington, but Chinny Sharma thinks it's more accurate to say he was simply doing the opposite of everything Mark Zuckerberg did in past testimony. Chinny and Sultan Meghji unpack some of Altman's proposals, from a new government agency to license large AI models, to safety standards and audit.
I mock Sen. Blumenthal for his complaint that "Europe is ahead of us" in industry-killing regulation. That earns him immortality in the form of a new Cybertoon, below (as before, a hat tip to Bing Image Creator for the graphic help).
