YOL's Resignation Email

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The day after the launch of Blue, YOL and Elon got on the phone. The problem could be fixed if Apple would just hand over all the credit card information of the people doing the impersonations," he says. He also asked Elon to slow down the rollout of Blue so that they would have time to hire and train more content moderators. "I will spend the rest of my time at this company trying to bail out a ship that might sink more slowly because I'm there bailing it out," writes YOL.

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.

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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.

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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.