Regulating Big Tech and AI; Betting on Carbon Capture; What Deregulation Did to Flying; A Side of Conflict With Your Turkey

On today’s show: 

Sara Morrison, a senior Vox reporter who covers data privacy, antitrust, and Big Tech, talks about the firing and hiring of Sam Altman and government efforts to regulate AI, plus the anti-trust cases against Google, Meta and Amazon.
Virtually every projection of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 involves some amount of carbon capture. Shannon Osaka, climate reporter for The Washington Post, talks about why pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is increasingly becoming a priority for the U.S. and how companies are aiming to pull it off.
Ganesh Sitaraman, law professor and the director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation, member of the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee and the author of Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It (Columbia Global Reports, 2023), argues the deregulation of the airline industry in the 1970s went too far and better public policy can fix the problems with this industry, and others.
Listeners call in to talk about how they imagine disagreements over the war between Israel and Hamas will surface at their Thanksgiving gatherings, and how they plan to diffuse the tension – if that’s even possible.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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