Sarah B. Rogers
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526 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
Sarah B. Rogers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The invention of the telegraph, there were worries about disinformation and attention span.
The invention of the film strip, people thought the train was coming at them through the screen.
The impulse to restrain that deal to regulate and to allow people to adapt and to give freedom the benefit of the doubt, that impulse tends to be vindicated over time.
When it comes to deepfakes, I think we have, in America and in Europe, strong legal remedies against defamation.
So if someone creates an image of a public figure that is false and people are believing that image and a reasonable viewer would believe that that person engaged in that action, you can already sue for defamation.
And it might be that you use the existing fraud statute, but there are little regulatory tweaks you can make the fraud easier to detect.
So one approach, which I don't think is always correct, but it exemplifies one direction of thinking, is maybe there's watermarking or something on some AI images
that would mitigate tort liability for some of the providers.
Or when we invented capital markets on a mass scale, right?
We had our old laws against fraud, but we kind of made some more fine-grained securities regulations.
Like now you have to file a certain disclosure annually with your earnings and whatnot.
We didn't fundamentally change how we treated false information.
We just developed some slightly more fine-tuned devices.
But when I say fine-tuned, I think that's an important piece of guidance.
You don't just go crazy and try to put the technological innovation back in the bottle, especially when we have foreign policy rivals like China that are developing AI at an aggressive pace.
And if we cocoon ourselves in safetyism, we hurt our standing in that race.
So before President Trump and Secretary Rubio did me the honor of this appointment, I was a litigator, and it was my job to fight.
And now I'm a diplomat, so it is my job to be diplomatic.
And in that spirit, I would like to sound a gong of optimism.
I think that a lot of ordinary Europeans are not comfortable with comedians getting dragged out of the airport, just like Europeans weren't comfortable with comedians getting murdered for publishing offensive cartoons.
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