The Cyberlaw Podcast: Will AI Save the Internet From Vladimir Putin … and Matt Drudge?
Our guest is Peter W. Singer, co-author with Emerson T. Brooking of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. Peter’s book is a fine history of the way the Internet went wrong in the Age of Social Media. He thinks we’re losing the Like Wars, and I tend to agree. It’s a deep conversation that turns contentious when we come to his prescriptions, which I see as reinstating the lefty elite that ran journalism for decades, this time empowered by even less self-doubt—and AI that can reproduce its prejudices at scale and without transparency.
In the News Roundup, Megan Reiss and Peter Singer join me in commenting on the White House and Pentagon cyber strategies. Bottom line: better than last time, plenty more room to improve.
