We Should Protect AI Speech
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We tend to assume AI can’t have free speech rights, since there’s no one there to speak. Jeffrey Howard, author of Setting Fire to Reason and a political philosopher at University College London, argues that government restrictions on AI outputs based on content or viewpoint are still a free speech violation, because the people who would read or watch that content are the ones wronged. We talk about why banning an AI-generated video wrongs its audience the way banning Das Kapital wrongs its readers rather than Marx, whether words with no speaker behind them count as speech at all, whether AI companies have free speech rights of their own, and why he thinks platforms should label AI content rather than ban it.
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