Yoel Roth is currently a technology policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He's also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His interests are still very much focused on trust and safety, and he's going to continue to be a player in that world. And let's also update our Twitter conversation because a lot has been happening at Twitter since you started working on this story.
In a congressional hearing this week, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, appeared to be on the same page as lawmakers: It’s time to regulate A.I. But like so many other proposals to regulate tech, will it actually happen? The Times’s technology reporter Cecilia Kang helps us understand whether Congress will actually act, and what that could look like.
Then, Casey talks with Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, before and after Elon Musk took over the company.
On today’s episode:
- Cecilia Kang is a reporter at The New York Times covering technology and regulation.
- Yoel Roth is the former head of trust and safety at Twitter.
Additional reading:
- Sam Altman urged Congress to pass legislation to regulate A.I., including the proposal that A.I. developers should be required to get licenses from the U.S. government to release their models.
- Casey Newton reported for This American Life on Roth’s time at Twitter, before and after Musk took over.