Hard Fork Examines Texas Age-Check Ruling and A.I. Consciousness in 3-Part Episode
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 10
Hard Fork Examines Texas Age-Check Ruling and A.I. Consciousness in 3-Part Episode
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 10
Summary
Hard Fork’s latest episode centers on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to take up Texas’ app-store age-verification law, using it to assess whether social media bans are working globally.
Texas’ law provides the immediate policy hook as the podcast explores what similar restrictions could mean for other U.S. states and for broader online access rules.
Jeff Sebo of N.Y.U. joins the show to discuss new research on “A.I. welfare” and the question of whether artificial intelligence could ever become conscious.
A final Tool Time segment shifts from policy and ethics to practice, with the hosts sharing new tech tools they have been testing.