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
Breaking down the debate around border security tech
The Senate’s bipartisan border deal met a rapid demise this week, But tucked inside the proposal was hundreds of millions of dollars for new technology along the U.S. southern border. Border securit…
00:19:24 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
Why one ‘godfather of AI’ warns humans must exert control
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has been dubbed one of the “godfathers of AI,” but he’s not exactly thrilled about the title. Bengio devoted most of his professional life to making AI smart…
00:19:51 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
The news brought to you by bots
More newsrooms are embracing generative artificial intelligence, even as it raises troubling questions about journalism’s future. On POLITICO Tech, the Knight Foundation’s Marc Lavallee tells host St…
00:17:24 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
How partisan politics is disrupting US cybersecurity efforts
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency became a conservative target in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Now, those same politician tensions are causing some private sector ex…
00:11:53 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
How AI is complicating the fight against child porn
There’s a new front in the fight against online child sexual abuse: AI-generated child porn. Emily Slifer is the policy director at Thorn, a nonprofit that develops technology to detect and remove su…
00:16:53 |
Mon 05 Feb 2024
Got clicks? Why social media is at the center of a food industry fight
For decades, U.S. agriculture industries have advertised products through quasi-government programs. (Think “Got Milk?” and “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner.”) Now, those marketing campaigns are getting…
00:14:02 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
One-on-one with the EU’s chief tech regulator
Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s top tech regulator, is busier than ever — contending with antitrust cases, internet regulations and, soon, artificial intelligence rules. And yet…
00:19:41 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
5 tech CEOs face a grilling on the Hill
The CEOs of five major social media platforms are being hauled up to Capitol Hill today, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and X's Linda Yaccarino. They'll face a grilling from the Senate Judiciary Co…
00:15:21 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
Will Hurd on his time at Open AI and what regulation it needs
Former Republican Congressman Will Hurd spent two years on the board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and is out in a new Op-Ed in Politico magazine warning that AI is too powerful to be left i…
00:20:22 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Sen. Ben Ray Luján on the Capitol Hill fight over internet subsidies
Key government programs that subsidize internet access for low-income and rural communities are in jeopardy. And Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), who chairs the Senate’s broadband subcommittee, has been …
00:15:33 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Scammers made a Biden deepfake. Here's why it wasn't very good.
A robocall mimicking the voice of President Joe Biden earlier this week is the latest instance of AI-generated deepfakes invading the campaign trail. But Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan warns thes…
00:21:30 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
The geopolitical storm surrounding Dutch tech giant ASML
One of the biggest tech companies at the center of the microchip war between the U.S. and China is actually Dutch. ASML manufactures equipment used by the world’s biggest semiconductor companies, mak…
00:14:30 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
The UN’s tech envoy on the need for global AI rules
At a time when global institutions are under strain, United Nations tech envoy Amandeep Gill says AI has the potential to be an “area of collaboration.” But making sure some nations aren’t left behin…
00:17:47 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
How Arizona State came to fully embrace AI
Arizona State is the first university to ink a partnership with OpenAI, bringing a business-grade version of ChatGPT into classrooms and research labs. It marks a major embrace of artificial intellig…
00:18:20 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
Inside the opaque court that hears spying complaints
The Biden administration created a court to hear complaints from European citizens who accuse the U.S. government of unfairly spying on them. It was part of a deal with the European Union that allows…
00:14:54 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
The streets in Davos are lined with AI
The World Economic Forum has been happening in Davos Switzerland this week – a gathering of the world’s muckety mucks, world leaders and billionaires. The setting is posh, the ski slopes are freshly …
00:13:49 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
An exit interview with Europe’s most powerful privacy regulator
Helen Dixon is Europe’s most powerful privacy regulator. As the head of Ireland’s data privacy watchdog, she has overseen the largest investigations to date into tech companies for violations of the …
00:19:46 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
The hot commodity behind AI-powered tech: spectrum
The growing number of connected devices, many of them now equipped with AI, is putting new demands on the U.S. supply of spectrum. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is im…
00:17:25 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
The weird and wild gadgets at CES
CES is something of a gadget pageant, where companies show off out-there technologies in over-the-top displays. But last week’s annual tech gathering in Las Vegas also offers insight into where consu…
00:20:12 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
BFFs and bitter rivals: Global tech tensions show at CES
At CES, no foreign country is better represented than China. It’s second only to the U.S. in the number of companies on display — many of them looking to expand in the U.S. market. Meanwhile, America…
00:11:34 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
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