Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI

Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. Learn more at Mercatus.org. For a full transcript of every conversation, enhanced with helpful links, visit conversationswithtyler.com. Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I'm sitting at Harvard Law School talking with Cass Sunstein.

Cass is the most widely cited legal scholar of all time, among his other achievements. Congratulations for that. This year he has, I believe, five, maybe more, books out. Some of them he's been working on for a long time, so it's a little misleading, but he has on liberalism and defense of freedom, which, if anything, will be our focus, a new book on manipulation, A book called Imperfect Oracle on the Strengths and Limits of AI, a co-authored book, Algorithmic Harm, and also Climate Justice.

Have I left anything out? I I really hope that's the entire list. And in February there's one coming on Separation of Powers. Kath Sunstein, welcome. A pleasure and an honor to be here.

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