Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig

S5E01: Our own Titanic: Overturned tables, a Gashed Hull and the Search for Lifeboats

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Oct 20, 2023
In this season of Another Way, Lawrence Lessig explores the flaws in democracies, the competition between democracy and corporations as analog AI, the threat to democracy posed by AI on social media, and the concept of 'lifeboats' and sortition as ways to protect democracy.
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
The Metaphor of a Captain and the Flaws in Democracies
02:58 • 3min
3
Analog AI: Democracy, Corporations, and the Competition
06:07 • 3min
4
Maximizing Revenue and the Threat to Democracy
09:19 • 7min
5
Protecting Democracy: Lifeboats and Sortition
16:01 • 16min