The Real AI Threat Isn't Your Job. It's the Truth.
Scott Galloway talks with FIRE president Greg Lukianoff about free speech in America: AI's power to define truth, bots, the Macklemore venue fight, campus free speech rankings, deplatforming and tenure.
The gist
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Lukianoff says his biggest AI fear is that regulation gives those in power control of AI's knowledge function, letting them decide what is true.
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Lukianoff says bots lack free speech rights but their creators generally have them, and platforms tolerate bots partly because they inflate traffic numbers.
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On Robert Kraft barring Macklemore, Lukianoff says the First Amendment backs Kraft, but trying to squelch views tends to make them more intense.
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FIRE surveyed nearly 62,000 students at 262 schools; NYU ranked dead last, while Lukianoff credits leadership for Vanderbilt and Dartmouth rising.
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Lukianoff says tenure hasn't made professors braver, suggests five-year contracts with strong protections, and favors students working a year before college.
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