Subprime Attention Crisis: The Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet, with Tim Hwang

This week, taking a break from climate, we have a special guest
on the show - Tim Hwang. Tim Hwang is a writer and researcher,
and he's the author of Subprime Attention Crisis, a book about
how online advertising may have become a bubble. He is currently
a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging
Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University.


He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and
Governance of AI Initiative, $26M philanthropic fund and research
effort working to advance the development of machine learning in
the public interest. He previously served as the global public
policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at
Google.


We had a fascinating conversation that starts with a little word
on deepfakes and misinformation, and then gets into the heart of
the Subprime Attention Crisis thesis - is online advertising a
bubble, and, if so, what does that mean for the internet that
depends on it so much? I hope you enjoy.