AI Safety Meet Trust & Safety with Ravi Iyer and David Sullivan
· 47 min
Episode AI Safety Meet Trust & Safety with Ravi Iyer and David Sullivan
David Sullivan, Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, and Rayi Iyer, Managing Director of the Psychology of Technology Institute at USC’s Neely Center, join join Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to discuss the evolution of the Trust & Safety field and its relevance to ongoing conversations about how best to govern AI.
They discuss the importance of thinking about the end user in regulation, debate the differences and similarities between social media and AI companions, and evaluate current policy proposals.
You’ll “like” (bad pun intended) this one.
Leo Wu provided excellent research assistance to prepare for this podcast.
Read more from David:
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/08/safety-product-build-better-bots/
https://www.techpolicy.press/learning-from-the-past-to-shape-the-future-of-digital-trust-and-safety/
Read more from Ravi:
https://shows.acast.com/arbiters-of-truth/episodes/ravi-iyer-on-how-to-improve-technology-through-design
https://open.substack.com/pub/psychoftech/p/regulate-value-aligned-design-not?r=2alyy0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Read more from Kevin:
https://www.cato.org/blog/california-chatroom-ab-1064s-likely-constitutional-overreach
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Links in the notes 6
- https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/08/safety-product-build-better-bots/
- https://www.techpolicy.press/learning-from-the-past-to-shape-the-future-of-digital-trust-and-safety/
- https://shows.acast.com/arbiters-of-truth/episodes/ravi-iyer-on-how-to-improve-technology-through-design
- https://open.substack.com/pub/psychoftech/p/regulate-value-aligned-design-not?r=2alyy0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
- https://www.cato.org/blog/california-chatroom-ab-1064s-likely-constitutional-overreach
- https://acast.com/privacy
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