FTP: Future Tech and Policy

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel discusses new legislation passed in Illinois (SB 315) on AI transparency and auditing and what useful information audits and reporting might include for different stakeholders. We also discuss the recent overflow of AI-generated content and sycophantic behavior, as well as Anthropic's recent call to slow down advanced AI...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel discusses the new encyclical by Pope Leo entitled "Magnifica Humanitas", which represents the Vatican's look at AI and its relationship to humanity and is being widely discussed in policy circles. We also explore the recent changes to Google's primary search results to be more of an AI-results-first approa...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel weighs the pros and cons of AI notetaking apps and digital meeting transcriptions, reminding us that not everything needs to be written down! Additionally, the panel chats about both the legal and academic scholarship pipeline and what happens when papers get retracted in the modern day, as well as some recent headlines that...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel discusses a recent court case in Oregon where a judge ordered an attorney pay attorney fees because of their use of an AI to write briefs, leading us to ask questions about what it means to practice a profession in the AI age. We also unpack the flash-in-the-pan Sora app by OpenAI and discuss what happens when your favorite A...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel chats about the newest secret AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI that are rumored to be so powerful that they need to be kept under lock and key, Anthropic's foray into the memory of the internet with the accidental leak of the Claude Code source, and proposed AI legislation in Illinois aimed to increase safety and disc...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, we explore more into the recent (and sudden) AI agent craze through OpenClaw and other tools and Zach shares lessons learned from his own OpenClaw experiments. We also look at the recent changes to Instagram's use of end-to-end encryption in direct messaging between users, and the use of fine-grained geographic data generated by p...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, we make sense of the Moltbook and Openclaw AI agent craze, in which we ask why (even for fun) agents need their own social network? The panel also takes a look at rentable humans by AI agents, AI board game archaeology unlocking the rules to an ancient Roman board game, us being wowed by the live robotics performances during the Chines...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel explores the Wikipedia community guidelines on spotting AI-written works to help with the editorial process only to have that set of guidelines used in a new plugin to make AI write less like AI, fake citations in AI papers (written by AI) and court cases, claims of disruption in jobs and the economy from AI leaders and how t...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel returns from winter break with a look at the light-hearted "Worst In Show" awards for products from the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the US Executive Order toward federal AI regulation preemption over state laws, the new "Head of Preparedness" officer being hired by OpenAI to investigate risks a...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel discusses some interesting cases for forgotten passwords and cybersecurity, the US Executive Order on the new Genesis Mission for AI research infrastructure via the NAIRR program and high-performance computing resources, Canada's new AI Register that inventories AI technologies being used by the Canadian federal governme...

In this episode of the Future Tech & Policy (FTP) Podcast, the panel discusses the recent federal and state debates regarding AI regulation and who should be responsible for AI policy, AI-infused toys and teddy bears and their recent safety testing results, and how AI products and initiatives might be insured. Links to articles discussed Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI...

In this inaugural episode of the FTP Podcast, panelists discuss AI-related news from recent weeks, as AI continues to present imaginative use cases and potential policy questions. Topics include the release of the Sora AI-generated video social networking app for Android, a report on pilot projects and startups having a high rate of failure, a recent court decision requiring chat logs from OpenAI...