A.I.’s Data Wall + a Surprise Privacy Bill + What Happened to the TikTok Ban?

This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan national privacy law proposal just dropped. We ask what’s in it. And finally, ByteDance is building new apps instead of fighting Congress’s TikTok ban. Today’s Guests: Trevor Hughes, president and C.E.O. of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Additional Reading: How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. For Data-Guzzling A.I. Companies, the Internet Is Too Small Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections TikTok Turns to Nuns, Veterans and Ranchers in Marketing Blitz We want to hear from you. Email us at [email protected] “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok.