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Scaling Laws explores (and occasionally answers) the questions that keep OpenAI’s policy team up at night, the ones that motivate legislators to host hearings on AI and draft new AI bills, and the ones that are top of mind for tech-savvy law and policy students. Co-hosts Alan Rozenshtein, Professor at Minnesota Law and Research Director at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow a... more

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Alan Rozenshtein, associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota and research director at Lawfare, and Kate Klonick, associate professor of law at St. John's University School of Law and a senior editor at Lawfare, spoke with science ficti... more

Dhruv Diddi, founder of Solo Tech, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to discuss the emerging frontier of Physical AI. Solo Tech builds infrastructure that al... more

Alan Rozenshtein, Research Director at Lawfare, spoke with Robert Wright—author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, and Why Buddhism Is True, and the writer behind the NonZero Newsletter and podcast—about his new book, The God Test: A... more

In this cross-pod episode, Alan and Kevin join Seth Benzell and Andrey Fradkin of Justified Posteriors to explore a big question: what should AI be for?

The conversation begins with Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical. The group discusses how economist... more

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Recent Guests

Seth Benzell
Economist, co-host of Justified Posteriors
Justified Posteriors
Episode: Justified Posteriors join Scaling Laws: Two economists and two lawyers walk into a podcast studio
Andrey Fradkin
Economist, co-host of Justified Posteriors
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Janel Thamkul
Former Frontier Council member at Anthropic; former Google Research leader
Anthropic, Google
Episode: Lawyering on the Frontier with Janel Thamkul
Tom Davidson
Researcher focused on AI governance
University of Texas School of Law / Open Philanthropy (former)
Episode: Tom Davidson on the Importance of AI Character
Owen Larter
Senior Director and Head of Frontier Policy and Public Affairs at Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind
Episode: Governing the Frontier with Owen Larter of Google DeepMind
Melissa Hutchins
Founder and CEO of Certifi AI
Certifi AI
Episode: Inside the Fight to Detect and Govern Synthetic Abuse with Melissa Hutchins of Certifi AI
Adeel Khan
MagicSchool
Episode: HAGS (with AI): How AI Tools Are Shaping Education with Adeel Khan and Ryan Trattner
Ryan Trattner
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Episode: HAGS (with AI): How AI Tools Are Shaping Education with Adeel Khan and Ryan Trattner
John McAuliff
Delegate, Virginia House of Delegates
Virginia House of Delegates
Episode: The Politics of Data Centers with VA Delegate John McAuliff

Hosts

Kevin Frazier
Host of Scaling Laws; AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and Senior Editor at Lawfare
Alan Rozenshtein
Co-host of Scaling Laws; Research Director at Lawfare; Associate Professor at Minnesota Law

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 47 ratings
  • Goofy

    Not up to the standards of the other Lawfare pods.

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    mhaliett
    United States4 months ago
  • Best of a bad lot

    The episode with Francis Shen of Neurolaw is excellent. Lots to disagree with. Specifically the idea of experimentally implementing surveillance before there’s general recognition that police and prosecutors AND THE DAMN FEDS are more interested in reducing crime than persecuting people (who are criminals to be sure, but that’s just an excuse for sadism). But both discussants recognize the problem and I salute you!

    I subscribed immediately after the trailer but pretty quickly left because of to... more

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    Standards Geek
    Japan5 months ago
  • The great team from Lawfare takes their admirable expertise in law and national security and then talks to some not always very technical people about tech stuff that is largely out of Lawfare's area of expertise.

    There's a nugget of a good idea here because most tech people who can talk credibly about the tech side have no idea what they are talking about when they try to talk about public policy and social impacts to deal with this stuff. But starting with some credulous guessing and then app... more

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    wrosecrans
    8 months ago
  • Scaling Laws formerly Arbiters of Truth

    Episodes of Scaling Laws begin 2025.07.02. Any review/rating before this date presumably applied to AoT. I’m just noting this for the record b/c the current featured review was authored in 2024.

    (Also noted for the record: Hook ‘Em, Horns! 🙃)

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    Suzushka
    United Statesa year ago
  • Can't believe they gave doxxer/journalist/Karen Taylor Lorenz a platform.

    Can't believe they gave doxxer/journalist/Karen Taylor Lorenz a platform. Shame.

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    1
    jaiboregio78
    United States3 years ago

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Guests are credible, high-signal voices in AI governance and regulation.
Some listeners want more practical practitioner interaction and menos theoretical depth.
The show features deep, policy-forward conversations with top legal and policy minds.

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Tom Davidson on the Importance of AI Character
Q: What about global coordination or a charter to guide AI behavior?
A charter could serve as a baseline acceptable to multiple nations, helping to frame democratic processes and negotiations between labs and governments, and potentially backed by law to ensure adherence across borders.
Tom Davidson on the Importance of AI Character
Q: How do labs actually devise these characteristics and behaviors today?
Labs currently rely on internal teams to set guardrails and desired behaviors, but there is debate about whether these efforts are too narrow or fragile when deployed in governmental or military contexts, and there is a need for broader civil society input.
Tom Davidson on the Importance of AI Character
Q: So AI character, what the heck is it?
AI character refers to the default behaviors, values, and ruling principles programmed into AI systems, which guide their outputs and actions in different contexts, with implications for safety, alignment, and societal impact.
Lawyering on the Frontier with Janel Thamkul
Q: Can you walk us briefly through your bio and how you ended up at the AI frontier as a lawyer?
Thamkul describes a non-linear path—from art school and fashion design to social work, then law school, private IP practice, Google, and finally Anthropic—emphasizing curiosity and a willingness to learn as the throughline that connected these roles and led to frontier AI work.
The Politics of Data Centers with VA Delegate John McAuliff
Q: Is it fair to focus on data centers as the national policy lever for grid and energy discussions?
The guest argues that data centers are a tractable focal point because they are highly concentrated and powerful, making negotiations more manageable than broad, diffuse sectors; yet the broader goal is to align infrastructure growth with cleaner energy and transparent community benefits.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Scaling Laws

What is Scaling Laws about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A show that brings together policymakers, lawyers, technologists, and policy researchers to unpack AI governance, regulation, and the economics of deploying AI at scale. Episodes commonly explore how AI affects productivity, law, infrastructure, data governance, and national security, often featuring legal scholars, technologists, and public policy insiders as guests. Noteworthy is a pattern of high-caliber, policy-forward conversations that balance technical detail with practical governance implications, plus frequent cross-cutting discussions on long-term policy, ethics, and institutional resilience. The format often includes two co-hosts guiding in-depth interviews or rapid-response takes on breaking AI governance news, making it a stron... more

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