Emily Baker-White
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Emily Baker-White
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Investigative reporter @ Forbes, fmr BuzzFeed News. Author: Every Screen On The Planet: The War Over TikTok.

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Prev. content policy @ Facebook, Spotify. Founder, Plain View Project. HLS c/o 2015.
Yesss tyty
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Privilege is rooted in a belief that candid conversations are good and should be encouraged. That’s what feels off: I agree with that for doctors, priests, and lawyers (as professions) but not sure I agree with it for chatbots.

I also agree we should protect people more from gov surveillance tho.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
More privacy for tech users is good! But creating a new privilege for a robot that routinely says inaccurate and dangerous things does seem like a weird way to enhance user privacy, if that is ultimately what this is about.
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
To avoid a panopticon hell where authoritarians see everything we do, we might:
—regulate who can collect / mine our data and how;
—impose duties of care on those entities;
—strengthen laws about when govs can access chatbot convos (and search history!) and what they can use them for
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Do we want to encourage candor with bots like we do with doctors / lawyers? That sure would give them a lot of power! Would it come with responsibility?

Would there be a crime-fraud exception? What if the bot suggests the crime? Could we sue for malpractice? Crim. charges for gross malpractice?
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
What was the second one?
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM