Latest podcasts in this series
Who is liable for AI? With Dr Anat Lior
22 September 2025
AI has legal consequences. Who is responsible when AI makes a mistake which causes harm or financial loss? What role does government regulation play, and do we need to revise our legal frameworks in the face of increasingly capable AI?
To talk about these questions, we spoke to Anat Lior, assistant professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
AI automation and the workforce with Dr Baobao Zhang
8 September 2025
We explore the impacts AI is already having on the workforce with Baobao Zhang, Maxwell Dean Associate Professor of the Politics of AI in the Political Science Department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. The discussion covers how recent advances in AI have shifted the landscape when it comes to labor automation, the anxiety that many people are feeling about the potential for AI to affect jobs and industries through automation, and what students should be doing to best prepare for a career in workplaces that will be affected by AI in the coming decades.
The US-China AI race with Professor Angela Zhang
30 June 2025
We spoke to Angela Zhang, Professor of Law at the Gould School of Law of the University of Southern California about the ongoing AI competition between China and the US with Professor Zhang is an expert on AI regulation, both in China and globally. They spoke about China’s current approach to AI regulation, and how this compares with the US, and why China may be content with being a “close second” in the AI race.
AI and intellectual property with Dr Bhamati Viswanathan
21 May 2025
The rise of AI tools has been fuelled by the scraping of online resources as training data for the large language models that power them. This has important implications for how we think about intellectual property and the rights of those who created this training data. To find out more, we spoke to Professor Bhamati Viswanathan of New England Law Boston.
Interviews in this series are conducted by the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson.
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