Thanks to the Asia Society for hosting a fantastic evening with Kai-Fu Lee, my former colleague and partner at Google. His new book, AI Superpowers, is genuinely terrific, both in explaining artificial intelligence, its possibilities, pitfalls, and implications for the future, and in laying out the relative strengths and weaknesses of China and the United States in technology and innovation.
Characteristically awesome event at the New America Foundation today. I spoke on “How Can Platforms Fix Online Speech?”, which: not simple. Co-panelists were:
Caroline Sinders, @carolinesinders Product Analyst, Wikimedia Foundation
Whitney Phillips, @wphillips49 Assistant Professor of Literary Studies and Writing, Mercer University Author, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Co-author, The Ambivalent Internet
Dipayan Ghosh, @ghoshd7 Public Interest Technology fellow, New America Joan Shorenstein Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Former Technology & Economic Policy Advisor, The White House Former Privacy & Public Policy Advisor, Facebook
Moderator: April Glaser, @aprilaser Staff writer, Slate
Our part starts around 1’10'“. Other speakers at the event:
REGULATING POLITICAL SPEECH IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL DISINFORMATION
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), @amyklobuchar Chair, Senate Democratic Steering Committee Ranking Member, Rules Committee
Dan Gillmor, @dangillmor Director and co-founder, News Co/Lab at Arizona State University Professor of Practice, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University Author, Mediactive and We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
Moderator: Cecilia Kang, @ceciliakang National Technology Correspondent, The New York Times
DOES THE INTERNET REQUIRE US TO RETHINK FREE SPEECH?
Rep. Ted W. Lieu (D-Calif.), @reptedlieu Member, House Committees on the Judiciary and Foreign Affairs
Jennifer Daskal, @jendaskal Associate Professor of Law, Washington College of Law at American University
Kate Klonick, @klonick Future Tense fellow, New America PhD Candidate, Yale Law School Resident fellow, Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Moderator: Cecilia Kang, @ceciliakang National Technology Correspondent, The New York Times