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
A leading psychologist’s take on tech and humans
The complex relationship between technology and mental health has captured increased attention in recent years, especially among regulators, amid rising concerns about the negative effects of social …
00:20:24 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Talking AI and the future of work at CES
If there’s a unifying theme to this year’s CES, it’s that artificial intelligence is everywhere. But the anxiety about what AI means for the future of work has been on display, too. On POLITICO Tech…
00:16:12 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Tech and podcasting in Las Vegas
Greetings from Las Vegas! POLITICO Tech host Steven Overly travels to CES this week to explore how the annual gadget pageant reflects many of the big tech debates around privacy, safety and artificia…
00:15:52 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
Key court cases in the year to come
There are multiple court cases and legal tests that could influence tech regulation for years. The action is everywhere — in state courts, being looked at by federal judges – and of course at the Sup…
00:19:03 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
Rise of the AI psychbots
What if generative AI could let you chat with doppelgangers of brilliant people, in their words, at any time? POLITICO’s Mohar Chatterjee digs into unnerving experiments from Beijing to Venice Beach…
00:16:05 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Why millions may soon lose their affordable internet
There are 22 million households enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, each receiving a subsidy from the federal government for their monthly internet bill. But unless Congress acts, the pr…
00:22:42 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
What to expect on tech from Washington in 2024
Little federal policymaking is likely to get done in an election year. But that doesn’t mean tech policy will be totally dead in Washington. On POLITICO Tech, Darrell West from the Brookings Institut…
00:16:24 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
Forecast 2024: States will drive the tech agenda
States passed dozens of new tech laws last year on issues like AI, data privacy and kids’ online safety. Congress… talked about a lot of laws. The University of North Carolina’s Matt Perault expects …
00:20:35 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
Rebroadcast: IBM’s CEO on AI layoffs, lawsuits and what comes next
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is both making artificial intelligence and grappling with its effects. In this rebroadcast, Krishna tells host Steven Overly why AI makes must be held accountable and why he’s …
00:23:02 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
Rebroadcast: Sen. Mark Warner’s big AI idea is to think small
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has been through his share of tech battles on Capitol Hill — and seen lawmakers fail to implement legislation time and again. Warner outlined his ideas for where Congress sho…
00:26:38 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
150 ways House lawmakers want to take on China
House lawmakers have laid out a lengthy plan for confronting Beijing’s rising tech ambitions. The recommendations come from a bipartisan committee that has spending much of the past year examining fr…
00:18:04 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
The case for a new tech cop
The U.S. Congress is still figuring out how to rein in Big Tech companies. Mark MacCarthy from the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University has a bold idea: create an entirely new tech regulat…
00:20:51 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Flying cars, political brawls and poking fun at tech politics
Bradley Tusk is a man with many hats: political consultant, venture capitalist, author. His new book, “Obvious in Hindsight,” is a satire about politics and tech, but it's not hard to see the fact th…
00:20:38 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
Meet Biden’s carbon capture salesman
Brad Crabtree is the assistant secretary for fossil energy and carbon management at the Energy Department -- a position that puts him at the center of the U.S. efforts to promote carbon capture techn…
00:19:09 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Why the world is split over carbon capture technology
The push for technologies that remove carbon from the atmosphere – carbon capture – has been driving a new wedge in the climate fight. And those tensions were on display at COP28 over the past two we…
00:14:47 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Inside the EU’s tense AI negotiations
The European Union reached a political agreement to regulate artificial intelligence -- a comprehensive law that will set a new global standard. EU parliamentarian Dragos Tudorache returns to POLITIC…
00:23:51 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
'Humans are not some peak of cognitive ability': The existential risks of AI
Malo Bourgon doesn’t know exactly what existential threats AI poses, but he says we should be preparing for them anyway. Bourgon is the CEO of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and among th…
00:18:18 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Fear not Spot the robot
Spot the robot dog has drawn public backlash for its use by law enforcement. But Robert Playter, the CEO of Spot’s creator, Boston Dynamics, says notions of robots taking over the world are fantasies…
00:21:44 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Afraid of AI ‘doomsday’? Why today might be the real problem
The doomsday scenarios about AI run amok garner a lot of attention, but would policymakers be better off focusing on its problems here and now? That’s the case Janet Haven, executive director at Dat…
00:19:14 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
A big AI battle is coming soon in California
There's an AI firestorm coming next year — and it won’t be in Washington. Look instead to Sacramento. On POLITICO Tech, California politics reporter Jeremy White tells host Steven Overly about the w…
00:16:12 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
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