Students and talking to faculty about a lot of these a. I. Issues that we have surfaced during our panels today. Of course he wrote a very important book with the late drt artificial intelligence. Article official intelligence. So were ending our afternoon with eric and trying to see if question pull together some of the strains of thinking and challenges and ideas that weve hear. So eric, thank you for joining us. You look like youre in a very comfortable but snowy place. I wanted to start by asking you, what are you most worried about with respect to a. I. In the 2024 election cycle . Well, first madam secretary, thank you for invitinger me to participate in all the activities. Im at a tech conference in snowy montana which is why im not there. If you lock at misinformation, we now understand extremely well that virallity, emotion and particularly powerful videos drive voting behave you, human behavior, moods, everything. And the current social Media Companies are weaponizing that be
The thing. Its good to be with you in this setting as opposed to the federal courthouse where we usually spend our days and weve a lot to cover about this really Remarkable Book that congratulations and glad its finally out. Just to start with a basic question, who who are the sedition hunters and why did you choose to write not just a story about them, as in might normally, but an entire book would tell me tell me about them. You know, its a really diverse group. Theyre really from across the country early on. I think there are a lot even people who are overseas who are sort of involved in this on the open source side and bringing some of their sort of skills and technology to that. But really, you know, the core group that it is now are spread out all across the country. And in fact, of our different political persuasions. And in fact, theres a key individual i write about in the book who voted for trump twice, which was sort of a surprise for a lot of the other sedition hunters, but
The thing. Its good to be with you in this setting as opposed to the federal courthouse where we usually spend our days and weve a lot to cover about this really Remarkable Book that congratulations and glad its finally out. Just to start with a basic question, who who are the sedition hunters and why did you choose to write not just a story about them, as in might normally, but an entire book would tell me tell me about them. You know, its a really diverse group. Theyre really from across the country early on. I think there are a lot even people who are overseas who are sort of involved in this on the open source side and bringing some of their sort of skills and technology to that. But really, you know, the core group that it is now are spread out all across the country. And in fact, of our different political persuasions. And in fact, theres a key individual i write about in the book who voted for trump twice, which was sort of a surprise for a lot of the other sedition hunters, but
The republicans had created this new definition. And this new definition is known as the investment contract assets. Now, we talked about this but, you know, even in the rules committee, while they were, you know, talking about how this bill was going to protect consumers, they did not debate us about this investment contract asset because they know that it created a void. It created a no mans land. This was created basically so that the Crypto Companies could be in a space without regulation. But it goes further than that. It also covers traditional securities so they can be in a space without regulation. It is not enough to says this about a bad bill. This is not only a bad bill,s that bill where the Crypto Companies decided they didnt like the s. E. C. They do not want to be regulated. And they were going to come to the congress of the United States and they were going to use their power and they were going to use their influence to change the rules of the game. And that they were g
The thing. Its good to be with you in this setting as opposed to the federal courthouse where we usually spend our days and weve a lot to cover about this really Remarkable Book that congratulations and glad its finally out. Just to start with a basic question, who who are the sedition hunters and why did you choose to write not just a story about them, as in might normally, but an entire book would tell me tell me about them. You know, its a really diverse group. Theyre really from across the country early on. I think there are a lot even people who are overseas who are sort of involved in this on the open source side and bringing some of their sort of skills and technology to that. But really, you know, the core group that it is now are spread out all across the country. And in fact, of our different political persuasions. And in fact, theres a key individual i write about in the book who voted for trump twice, which was sort of a surprise for a lot of the other sedition hunters, but