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
How AI-generated ads can 'backfire' on politicians
A recent experiment involving two fake political ads tested voter reactions to seeing AI disclaimers — with surprising results. The study’s lead researcher Scott Babwah Brennen, the director of the C…
00:15:14 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Cohere’s CEO wants to build a ‘boring but profound’ AI future
Artificial intelligence may not be as smart as humans — at least not yet — but the technology is progressing faster than Aidan Gomez ever imagined. Now, the Cohere CEO says the trick is convincing pe…
00:19:53 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
How the Israel-Hamas war changed conflict online
This week marks one year since the Hamas attack that left about 1,200 Israelis dead. Since then, tens of thousands of people have been killed -- the majority of them Palestinians living in Gaza. And …
00:19:07 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
“What’s at stake is the world”
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa wants to scare some sense into us. The U.S. election is just a month away,and she says the outcome is a tipping point in the fight for democracy over autocracy…
00:22:22 |
Mon 07 Oct 2024
The tech issues voters care most about
A recent poll conducted by a policy research firm called the Rainey Center asked people about the tech issues that matter most to them. Today, host Steven Overly digs into voters top-of-mind tech iss…
00:18:25 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
A Senator faked an ad - here’s what happened next
There’s a Republican attack ad in Indiana that in recent days has gotten a lot of attention — a digitally altered image that Sen. Mike Braun’s campaign put out, before slapping a required disclosure …
00:13:36 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
How will Kamala Harris handle Big Tech?
Ever since it became clear that Kamala Harris would be the Democratic nominee, there’s been speculation about whether she will continue the Biden administration’s crackdown on big tech companies. In …
00:14:59 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
Inside Gavin Newsom's veto
Today, we’re talking California. Specifically, Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of California’s sweeping AI bill that was meant to impose safety vetting requirements for powerful AI models.
California re…
00:10:22 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
The future of AI warfare
What does the future of war look like? That’s a big question — and one that POLITICO reporter Mohar Chatterjee asked Pentagon’s AI chief Radha Plumb. She spoke to Mohar about the Pentagon's massive b…
00:21:40 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
Electric vehicles are transforming Georgia. But voters don’t like or want them.
Electric vehicles are transforming Georgia’s economy with billions of dollars in clean tech investments and jobs, but local voters aren’t interested in buying the new vehicles. That presents a unique…
00:14:40 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
How the tech decoupling with China is going
How does the Biden administration break up with certain Chinese tech supply chains without severing trade ties with China? That's a question we're watching play out right now. Jon Bateman, the co-dir…
00:19:53 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
The AI and tech voices influencing Donald Trump
When Donald Trump was first elected to the White House, he tapped a young and relatively unknown guy named Michael Kratsios to be the nation’s chief technology officer. Today, Kratsios is back outsid…
00:21:05 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
How Silicon Valley pulled off a ‘tech coup’
Marietje Schaake thinks Silicon Valley has pulled off a major power grab, taking on decisions that were once made by elected leaders and democratic governments. A former EU parliamentarian now at Sta…
00:18:23 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
Bremmer: How to keep AI from breaking up the globe
There’s growing concern among global leaders that artificial intelligence will be controlled only by the wealthiest nations — the same nations that control most of the technology today. Eurasia Group…
00:19:31 |
Mon 23 Sep 2024
Google makes its AI case to the UN
The UN General Assembly kicks off this weekend and world leaders are expected to have tech top of mind. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be there, making a rare, high-profile speech where he’s expected …
00:19:19 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
The election's coming up — but deepfake AI legislation isn't
POLITICO held its AI and Tech Summit earlier this week, where host Steven Overly sat down with Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar. On today’s episode, we air that conversation. Klobuchar is one of the …
00:14:55 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Obernolte: Sorry, California. DC will set the AI agenda.
Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) is helping set the House’s artificial intelligence agenda as co-chair of a bipartisan task force in the House. That includes more than a dozen AI-related bills he thinks…
00:19:40 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Ready to vote? There could be an app for that.
Bradley Tusk started his career in government before making big bucks in tech and venture capital. He’s now pouring millions of dollars into building and testing technology that would allow people to…
00:23:57 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
Breaking the Silicon Valley hype machine
False promises of a high-tech future that’s good for humanity have allowed Silicon Valley to hoodwink policymakers and the public, argues cognitive scientist and tech critic Gary Marcus. And with the…
00:18:38 |
Mon 16 Sep 2024
The AI pioneer with a warning for Gov. Gavin Newsom
Washington isn’t poised to pass major AI legislation. Ottawa isn’t either. So Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, is looking to Sacramento. …
00:17:01 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
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