Do social media bans work? + AI Consciousness Talk + Tool Time

This week, with news that the US Supreme Court has declined to adopt Texas’ age-verification law for app stores, we’re checking out how social media bans are playing out around the world and what could soon be happening in a state near you. Then we’ll be joined by Jeff Sebo, associate professor at NYU, to discuss new research on the “well-being of artificial intelligence” and whether artificial intelligence could ever become conscious. And finally, in our latest edition of Tool Time, we show each other some of the latest tech tools we’ve been experimenting with.

Guest

• Jeff Sebo, associate professor and director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Politics at NYU

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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones. This episode was edited by Vjeran Pavic. Engineering by Chris Wood and original music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.

Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Brooke Minters, and Dahlia Haddad.