POLITICO Tech
The POLITICO Tech podcast is your download on the disruption that technology is bringing to politics and policy. New episodes on Thursdays.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 1025
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Inside India’s big, long, AI-filled election
India’s election finally came to a close last night. But the long campaign brought out some of the most novel and bizarre examples yet of generative artificial intelligence in politics, from personal…
00:21:30 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
Why a top European official went to Silicon Valley on the eve of a major election
European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová has been on the road talking about disinformation and foreign interference ahead of the European Union elections later this week. And that “Democracy T…
00:27:06 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
The Silicon Valley agitator now setting his sights on Washington
Garry Tan, the CEO of startup accelerator YCombinator, has made waves in San Francisco politics, helping to oust the city’s most liberal politicians in favor of more centrist Democrats. Now, the tech…
00:17:54 |
Fri 31 May 2024
Schools are dealing with a wave of AI-generated fake nudes
Schools across the country are grappling with a new kind of harassment: generative artificial intelligence being used to create sexually explicit images and videos of students and teachers. States ha…
00:16:37 |
Thu 30 May 2024
How AI could rewrite history in documentaries
Artificial intelligence can do more than shape the future; it could also rewrite the past. AI-generated images and videos are now finding their way into documentary films, and the recently formed Arc…
00:19:17 |
Wed 29 May 2024
The secret government program getting billions in CHIPS money
Congress allocated $39 billion to subsidize microchip manufacturing, part of President Joe Biden pledge to revive a dormant U.S. industry. Then, a backroom deal led to a chunk of that money being fun…
00:15:34 |
Tue 28 May 2024
Internet blackouts are increasing — here's why
Dozens of governments around the globe cut their citizens off from the internet in 2023 — the worst year for such internet shutdowns since digital rights group Access Now began tracking them. It’s a …
00:22:28 |
Fri 24 May 2024
How did Colorado pass an AI law? We asked the guy who wrote it.
Colorado is the first state in the nation with major artificial intelligence regulations on the books. Starting in 2026, consumers will be notified when "high-risk” models are used to make important …
00:16:57 |
Thu 23 May 2024
Biden, Trump and the battle to be tough on China
President Joe Biden just ramped up tariffs on electric vehicles, solar cells and other products made in China. It marks Biden’s latest move in an ongoing tech and trade war with Beijing, as well as h…
00:14:57 |
Wed 22 May 2024
So what is Sam Altman's 'universal basic compute' anyway?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman floated a radical idea recently: What if everyone got to own a piece of artificial intelligence? He called it “universal basic compute.” And while it may never become actual soc…
00:16:58 |
Tue 21 May 2024
‘It does feel like a disappointment’: An AI expert blasts the Senate’s new policy roadmap
The Senate spent months consulting dozens of experts when crafting its new AI “policy roadmap.” One of them, computer science professor and former White House adviser Suresh Venkatasubramanian, is no…
00:18:39 |
Mon 20 May 2024
Sen. Todd Young delves into the new AI roadmap
The roll out this week of the Senate’s artificial intelligence policy roadmap was about as close to bipartisanship as Washington gets these days. But can it last? Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), one of the…
00:16:09 |
Fri 17 May 2024
Two unlikely states tried to rein in AI. Then came the tech lobbyists
Colorado and Connecticut attempted to become the first states to regulate artificial intelligence but faced significant pushback from the tech industry. In Connecticut, the governor then threatened t…
00:15:14 |
Thu 16 May 2024
Chuck Schumer just fired the Senate’s AI starting gun
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s AI policy roadmap is out this morning. The bipartisan report, co-authored with Sens. Martin Heinrich, Todd Young and Mike Rounds, calls for big bucks for AI res…
00:24:29 |
Wed 15 May 2024
What Biden’s ‘next chapter’ of AI looks like
When President Joe Biden talks about artificial intelligence, he’ll often refer to the technology’s “promise and peril.” Yet much of his AI agenda to date has focused on the latter. Now, the White Ho…
00:15:43 |
Tue 14 May 2024
Big dreams, small budget. NSF's director on funding AI research
President Biden’s signature CHIPS and Science Act promised the National Science Foundation a budget boost of $81 billion over five years. But so far, Congress hasn’t come through with the money. That…
00:14:07 |
Mon 13 May 2024
How the US beats China on AI
The relationship between Washington and the tech industry has gone through no shortage of ups and downs over the years, but things were all smiles earlier this week at an AI expo hosted by the Specia…
00:21:29 |
Fri 10 May 2024
Van Jones and Arun Gupta on the new AI civilization
CNN contributor and Dream Machine founder Van Jones met NobleReach Foundation CEO Arun Gupta at a tech festival. It turned out they’re both AI optimists, and think all the doom and gloom about the te…
00:26:29 |
Thu 09 May 2024
How TikTok’s algorithm really handled the Israel-Gaza war
TikTok has long faced criticism for suspected ties to the Chinese government. But since the start of the war, U.S. officials have also accused the app of amplifying posts that are sympathetic to Hama…
00:15:59 |
Wed 08 May 2024
How AI will upend non-elite universities, according to Coursera’s CEO
Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda says AI is transforming education -- both how it’s delivered and what people are studying. On today's Politico Tech, Jeff’s case to host Steven Overly for why higher ed…
00:16:37 |
Tue 07 May 2024
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