Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast

In our last episode before the August break, the Cyberlaw Podcast drills down on the AI industry leaders’ trip to Washington, where they dutifully signed up to what Gus Hurwitz calls “a bag of promises.” Gus and I parse the promises, some of which are empty, others of which have substance. Along the way, we examine the EU’s struggling campaign to lobby other countries to adopt its AI regulation framework. Really, guys, if you don’t want to be called regulatory neocolonialists, maybe you shouldn’t go around telling former European colonies to change their laws to match Europe’s. Jeffery Atik picks up the AI baton, unpacking Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) overhyped set of AI amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and panning authors’ claim that AI models have been “stealing” their works. Also this week, another endless and unjustified claim of high-tech infringement came to a likely close with appellate rejection of the argument that linking to a site violates the sit