Intro
CNN chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins fills in as Kara Swisher's co-host, working through Meta's child-safety settlement with the states, the grassroots revolt against data centers now showing up in Republican districts, Bill Gates' AI essay, Trump's endorsement record in the South Carolina primary, and a long opening on Dolly Parton's death.
Guest: Kaitlan Collins, chief White House correspondent at CNN and anchor of The Source
Host: Kara Swisher
Published: 28 August 2026 on Pivot | 1 hr 11 min
Key Takeaways
State attorneys general, not Congress, are the ones writing social-media rules
Swisher read out the settlement terms Meta agreed to: a two-hour daily limit, apps off at night by default, no notifications during school hours
Swisher: "These are also things that should have been there a long time ago."
Meta settling is the start of the sequence, not the end of it
Collins asked whether it is "the first of many," given how many parallel cases are running
Age limits should not stop at children
Collins: "I also think it should happen maybe for people who are 65 plus because I think a lot of people's parents are online way too much."
Data centers are the rare issue the far right and the progressive left have landed on together
Collins: "Not only did they change, it was a full 180" — on Mike Rogers, Greg Abbott and Vivek Ramaswamy reversing themselves
Trump is the holdout on data centers, and it may cost other Republicans
Collins: he has been praised for a decade for his instincts, and "This is an area where it doesn't seem to be the case"
Bill Gates warning about AI lands differently because of who is saying it
Collins: "it's like the call is coming from inside the house"
Trump's endorsement still works, but it no longer works cheaply
Collins on the South Carolina Senate runoff: "They spent $800,000 here." Plus a virtual rally and an in-person one, in a safe Republican seat
Nobody covering the midterms trusts the polling
Collins: "given how wrong the polls have been and they're just a snapshot, I do think we don't really know what's going to happen in November"
A Democratic House would not get the oversight cooperation it got last time
Collins: "I don't think that they will handle congressional oversight the way they did the first time."
Not responding to attacks from the podium is a deliberate method, not composure
Collins: "I want it to stay focused on the question"
Dolly Parton's philanthropy is the counter-example Collins reaches for on billionaires
Collins: "She genuinely wanted to invest in children and in her community and where she came from."
Remembering Dolly Parton
Collins had dedicated her entire show on Tuesday night to Dolly Parton, which she said is rare for a program that does politics every night
Her favorite Dolly song is Hard Candy Christmas, not the obvious pick — she had spent a long car ride the night before listening to Dolly Parton the whole way, and Swisher had done the same
On the political content of a career that rarely announced itself: Swisher's reading is that Parton practiced what she called quiet politics — the Moderna vaccine, feminist gestures made without the label, support for trans people, and an explicit line on Black Lives Matter
Collins raised the 2003 Crossroads duet with Melissa Etheridge, who had been a guest on her show the night before
Parton was allowed to pick her partner and picked Etheridge, at a moment when the gay marriage debate was raging in the United States
"But when they did their duets, it was the first time that two women had done it" — Kaitlan Collins
Swisher's own pick was Travelin' Through, written for the film Transamerica, which she called a song of acceptance released when that was not a thing people did
On Jolene rewritten as a vaccine plea: Swisher called it a big political statement and a risky one for someone like Parton, and said to think of the lives she saved
Collins tied it to what she saw in the South during the pandemic — real vaccine hesitancy among people she loves — and Parton's willingness to say something when "she could have said nothing"
Growing Up Two Hours From Dollywood
Collins is from Prattville, a small town outside Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up going to Dollywood on family vacations
"we thought it was Disney World for us before we went to Disney World" — Kaitlan Collins
Her mother is a fourth-grade teacher who had been playing Dolly Parton in class all morning; her stepfather, who drove those trips, was texting her about it
She could not find a single photograph of any of it. The family looked all day because she wanted the pictures for the show, and there were none — no smartphones, maybe a disposable camera, and in her reading that is a sign of how much fun they were having
Collins says she is "converting Alabama viewers one at a time", and heard from distant relatives about the show for the first time
Swisher's Dollywood story is the one about the crowd, not the rides: she took her whole family, walked in through the butterfly entrance, and found the park to be the one place in America where everyone got along
"And everyone was so happy to be together because of her. And I was like, can you bottle this?" — Kara Swisher
She adds that the minute you walk out, it is back to guns and abortion
Collins was wearing a WWDD shirt — What Would Dolly Do — bought at Dollywood, and noted the park now has a display of Parton's wigs
What Dolly Parton Did With Her Money
Collins' point is that the money went back where it came from: not, in her phrasing, a bullshit exercise in making herself look good
"She genuinely wanted to invest in children and in her community and where she came from" — Kaitlan Collins
Swisher listed the giving she remembered — money for people to finish high school, money for flood recovery — and pointed to the business decision behind it
Parton kept I Will Always Love You rather than selling it to Elvis, and made a fortune when Whitney Houston recorded it
"She is the quintessential American entrepreneur" — Kara Swisher
On the interview Swisher wanted and never got: she would only have asked Parton about entrepreneurship, not the songs, and was drawn in by Parton's work on AI and song stems
"she was doing a lot of stuff with AI and song stems because she owns thousands of songs that haven't been released, too" — Kara Swisher, who says Parton wanted them released after her death
On the Imagination Library and how Parton described her father: Collins' favorite detail is the phrasing
"She said he never had the chance to learn" — Collins' point being that he was not a man who could not read, but a man never given the opportunity
Swisher said Republican lawmakers in Missouri and Indiana have cut or reduced funding for the reading program and that she hopes it is reinstated, or that a billionaire backs it
The billionaire comparison Swisher drew was MacKenzie Scott, who she says hands money out and goes away, against the performative version most people practice
Jeff Bezos gave Parton $100 million as part of a round of awards that Swisher recalls also going to Van Jones and José Andrés, and Swisher believes Parton gave all of it away
Her advice to Bezos: "Just give it away and keep giving it away."
On why Parton was never attacked for any of it: Swisher notes she took very liberal positions on issues that are now hot buttons and still drew no criticism, and quoted Jack White's tribute post calling it instant sainthood
Collins on the thing she thinks matters most for women: "she did not associate aesthetics with character"
Every question about her appearance got turned back to what she was like inside, and she was never bashful about what she had had done
Swisher's version of the same line: "well, maybe it's fake on the outside, but it's real on the inside"
Trump ordered flags flown at half staff and posted that there has never been anyone like her and never will be, which Swisher noted did not try to make the moment about him
"For Donald Trump and the Democratic Socialists of America to both put out a pretty similar statement about the passing of someone is a moment that probably will never happen again" — Kaitlan Collins
On whether a death can change the temperature of American politics: Swisher said everyone she knows woke up having had enough of the hate, and asked Collins whether it lands politically
Collins would not predict an effect, but read the saturation as evidence of something else: "it shows how much people are grasping for something that does unite people and that does give people hope and enthusiasm and an optimism"
Her team spent the night in the archives pulling old Larry King interviews, and "the way we described it after the show was we were like, that was soul cleansing"
Swisher recommended the PBS documentary Here I Am, and mentioned her own family is from rural West Virginia, which is how she came to country music and bluegrass early
Meta Settles With 29 States Over Children's Mental Health
Swisher opened the segment by reading the news: Meta has agreed to pay nearly $17 billion to settle a major federal case brought by 29 states over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harm children's mental health, in the second week of a trial in California
Swisher's argument is that this is not a rounding error, whatever the reaction says: "It's not peanuts, guys. This is a big deal. I know it's not enough, and everyone had pretended it was $1.4 trillion"
She credits Rob Bonta, the California attorney general leading the state cases, and frames the whole thing as state attorneys general legislating because Washington never did
The settlement terms Swisher read out, sent to her by someone at Facebook: a two-hour daily time limit, access turned off at night by default, no notifications during school hours, prompts for teens every 15 minutes of continuous screen time, and new parental supervision controls
"These are also things that should have been there a long time ago" — Kara Swisher
Collins had two questions about it. The first was scope: the changes are aimed at children but will potentially affect all users, which Swisher thinks is as it should be
Her second question was why Meta settled at all: "Maybe they saw the writing on the wall and they didn't think it was going to go well for them" — and if so, is it the first of many
Collins does not think the protections should stop at minors. She thinks about her nephews, who are not yet in this era, and about her own parents
"I also think it should happen maybe for people who are 65 plus because I think a lot of people's parents are online way too much"
She has had to tell her own parents that a video they saw was AI, including videos using her
Swisher's read on why a settlement beats a verdict: Facebook has unlimited ability to sue and appeal, and getting these changes through a trial would have taken years
Swisher disclosed she is writing a new book: "actually, I'm working on a new book and it's about a digital bill of rights" — what everyone should have going forward
She expects other companies to follow Meta, and named Marsha Blackburn as an example of how easily the two parties agree on this one, with the caveat that a governor's race can move a position
The Data-Center Backlash Is Not Coming From Outside
Swisher used the reversals as her measure: Mike Rogers changed, Greg Abbott changed, Vivek Ramaswamy changed
"Not only did they change, it was a full 180" — Kaitlan Collins
Swisher's gloss on that: "I call that a lie, but go ahead"
Collins had Gina Hinojosa, who is running against Abbott, on her show, and reported the opponent's skepticism as an opponent's — Hinojosa said she thinks Abbott would switch back if he wins reelection
On the coalition: "this is something that people on the far right and the very progressive left seem to agree on" — a hesitancy at best, and full-out opposition at worst, to data centers going up in their communities with no say-so and no transparency
Republicans in most cases were the ones ushering these projects into their states, without regard for whether small communities could keep up with the resources required
Collins pointed to Kathy Hochul's moratorium and the response to it as a marker of the shift
Trump is the exception, and Swisher says he deserves a grudging respect for it: he is all in on AI, his administration is built on the bear hug he gave the AI industry, "but he's not backing down and probably will hurt other candidates, presumably"
Collins' assessment is that this is a rare miss for his political instincts. He has been praised for a decade for being in touch with his base, and "This is an area where it doesn't seem to be the case"
She named Republican districts where it has become a big issue, and the Republican Senate seat in Ohio
Michael Whatley in North Carolina claimed the opposition is ginned up and driven by outside forces; both hosts said that is not what the reporting shows
Where Collins would rank tech among voters' concerns: "I think in rural areas, the data center's backlash, the flock camera's backlash is becoming more and more of a thing"
Swisher explained the second one for the audience — police taking pictures of people — and Collins specified the AI readers of license plates
Collins' framing on Abbott: "they dug their own grave by not being more forthright and honest about what was happening and what people should expect"
She puts the economy and inflation above it but says they are intertwined, with water the main local concern
Bill Gates Says the Industry Will Not Regulate Itself
Swisher read the news in: Gates has published a long essay warning that the transition to this new AI era "will be one of the most turbulent times in human history, and we're not prepared for it", proposing taxes on AI tokens and bots, reserving certain jobs for humans, and urging the US and China to collaborate on regulation
Gates acknowledged to the Washington Post that people might dismiss him over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, again calling those interactions a very bad mistake; Swisher said she had told him the same thing
Swisher also flagged an MIT report calling for a fundamental rethink of higher education — redesigned assessments, more hands-on learning, course-specific rules for AI use
What makes it land for Collins is the source: "As you're reading that, it's like the call is coming from inside the house"
Her summary of his position: his colleagues are downplaying the concerns because they want to make more money, and "he's saying this idea that we're going to self-regulate is just not even close to having a grasp on reality"
The comparison she drew was Bernie Sanders, who is on her show every couple of weeks and always raises AI
"It is going to wipe out the job force that people do not understand the impact it's going to have" — Collins relaying Sanders' argument, which she says reaches the same place as Gates by a different route
Collins connected it straight back to the Meta case: we have seen what happens when the companies are the ones expected to write their own guidelines and guardrails
Swisher's version is blunter: "They have no interest in regulation whatsoever, unless it's to their advantage or a big fat, pretty contract with the Department of Defense on AI or something like that"
Collins' counter is that Congress may not be equal to it either. She interviews those people daily and does not have a lot of confidence they will understand what they are doing
Swisher's answer: "All right, but do they understand how planes fly? Do they need to?" — car regulation got written without legislators being engineers
Collins' objection is speed, taking it from the Gates essay: the agricultural revolution and industrialization happened over generations and people had time to adjust, and this will not
How Collins and Her Family Actually Use AI
The part of the Gates essay that resonated with her was about people who are not elites — someone working two jobs who has no time for health-care paperwork, government benefits or a college financial-aid application
She took it personally because of her own college applications. Her sister had gone, but they were navigating it on their own with no alumni network to consult
"applying for financial aid was really difficult. And we didn't totally understand it, even what we were signing up for then" — Kaitlan Collins
She thinks that kind of help would matter to a lot of the people she grew up with
Her worry sits on the other side of the same trade: "if this happens so fast and it wipes out all these jobs before we even have time to understand the implications of it, it's scary"
She uses it for research and looking things up. Her mother the teacher uses it. "My dad sells mobile homes. He uses it every day for random things"
Her point is the spectrum: everyone can see how it helps, and that is not an argument for letting the companies run amok
Swisher's own example from that morning was identifying a monster truck for her son from a photograph, after Google image search failed her — she is taking him to a monster truck rally, and he now trades the toys with other boys
Swisher raised the controversy over a man who used AI for a Wall Street Journal piece insulting Scott Bessent, who she introduced as a very famous investor and who Collins noted was his mentor
Trump Snaps His Endorsement Losing Streak in South Carolina
Swisher set it up: Trump's endorsed candidates came out on top in the latest Republican primaries. Lindsey Graham's sister Darlene won her primary despite virtually no political experience and a debate snafu over foreign policy, and his candidate won the Republican runoff for governor in Oklahoma
The White House had told Collins it was a placeholder. When Trump first endorsed Darlene Graham for the temporary period before the runoff, officials who speak to the president told her "it's just a tribute to Lindsey, it's his dear friend that he lost suddenly, and she's going to be there kind of, in just a placeholder role"
That changed as the runoff got closer, and it became clear the president wanted her to hold the seat
The takeaway Collins drew is that the endorsement still moves votes without him on the ballot: "he basically elevated someone who until a couple of weeks ago was not well known, who did have some debate mishaps, whose policy decisions and stances are not really well defined"
The opponent was not a Trump critic. Ralph Norman is a close ally — Collins had him on the show and asked about the text message he sent after January 6 saying he wanted the president to declare martial law, and his only regret, he told her, was how he had spelled the word
What it cost: "They spent $800,000 here", out of a super PAC Collins describes as pretty stingy with Republicans, plus a virtual rally and an in-person rally, in a very safe Republican seat
Her read on why: his endorsement power has been tested elsewhere and he did not want it tested here
Swisher: "he definitely had to heavy this one, right? He had to shove it through in a way that he never had to do"
On what the new senator is: likely in the seat until 2032 at least, having said she disagreed with her brother only on immigration and would have gone further, and unable to articulate a policy on Taiwan, which Collins notes could be a real issue soon
The prediction markets beat the pollsters on this race. Swisher said Polymarket and Kalshi got the final numbers closer than the polls did, which were way too low — while noting the same markets were wrong in Michigan and Wisconsin, and calling polling accuracy a live crisis in political coverage
Mail-In Voting, the Supreme Court, and a Midterm Nobody Can Poll
Swisher's account of the ruling corrects the coverage: the majority said Trump can move forward with the executive order, meaning he can plan for it rather than implement it. The order directs the Postal Service to help determine which voters should receive mail-in ballots
A separate injunction is in place and more legal wrangling is expected
The show quoted Justice Brown Jackson's dissent, that the ruling "needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty in the upcoming midterm elections"
Swisher's own figure: about 30% of all ballots in the 2024 election were cast by mail, and Trump has used it himself, most recently this month in Florida's GOP primary
Her verdict on the reasoning: they did not want to do pre-crime — "which that seemed fair, honestly. But icky, but fair"
Collins' point is that the case was never argued on its merits: "The ruling wasn't about the merits of the case. It was more about the timing and when they were sued over it"
The practical constraint is the calendar. They are 10 weeks out from the midterms, and the closer you get, the harder any change is to implement
On what anyone actually knows about November: conventional wisdom says the president's party loses badly in the first midterm, but Collins is not leaning on it
"given how wrong the polls have been and they're just a snapshot, I do think we don't really know what's going to happen in November"
She points to the redrawn districts and to everything that has changed since February, including the war
Collins has covered the Trump White House since the first term — Swisher paired her with Maggie Haberman, and Collins allowed that Haberman has covered him longer
What a Democratic House Would Actually Run Into
Swisher's framing is that people are leaving the administration to get out ahead of Democratic subpoenas, and her own prediction is that Trump cooperates
She reads the meetings between Jared Kushner and Hakeem Jeffries as a sign he is preparing to recover or reinvent himself
"I think he's a bully, and he gets bunch of the nose he's going to stop" — Kara Swisher, who also calls him "very lizard-like" in his sense of where the wind is blowing
Collins' prediction is the opposite, and she marks it as a prediction: an educated one from reporting, not a forecast, because you cannot predict much in political reporting
"I don't think that they will handle congressional oversight the way they did the first time"
Her reasoning is that the president hated being impeached, expects it to happen again, and that the pushback from the DOJ and the White House will be greater than last time
On the second-term power he started with: Collins says he came in able to bend corporate executives, congressional Republicans and law firms to his will, and that a Washington with people who push back would be a very different Trump presidency
The Kennedy Center, the Ballroom and the Cranes
Collins had rewatched Dolly Parton's 2006 Kennedy Center Honors tribute the night before, including Reba McEntire telling the story of meeting her
"everyone like criticizes Washington institutions. That's one that's this lovely moment for the entire country, I think" — Kaitlan Collins
Swisher covered the Kennedy Center Honors for the Washington Post at 23 and 24, in the style section, going to all the breakfasts and writing them up — the assignment the older reporters would not take because it ran on a Sunday night and went late
Collins is unsentimental about the building itself — she is not a fan of how it looks — but calls what is happening there a weird flex and a silly one, while saying she understands the White House part in a way
On the ballroom: there is a giant hole in the ground, so they are definitely working on it, and Collins cannot see them half-building it and stopping
The open question she raises is what a Democratic president would do with a half-finished one
The construction has changed the mechanics of covering the president. Chopper talk on the South Lawn does not happen anymore because the press cannot get out there
"going into the White House every day, and I've covered the White House for 10 years, seeing these giant cranes, it's changed the way we cover the president" — Kaitlan Collins
They are also building the helipad Trump wants finished before Chinese President Xi Jinping visits next month
On the arch and Arlington: Collins understands it will obstruct part of the view of the cemetery, which she calls a miss for people who go there to pay respects
Swisher, whose father was in the military, called Arlington one of the most hallowed and beautiful places to visit, and noted it was Robert E. Lee's estate and plantation
The Golf Ad, and Why She Never Fires Back
Swisher read the story in: Good Good Golf and Callaway apologized after an ad showed a male golfer shoving a woman to the ground after she reached for his club. The video was meant as a parody of a horror movie, drew backlash for making light of violence against women, and was removed; Callaway acknowledged it had approved the ad
Good Good says it will donate the campaign's proceeds to an organization supporting women, though it is still researching which one — which Swisher rejected outright
Collins' answer starts with the response rather than the ad: "it's always the response that like somehow makes it worse"
"The fact that it got approved and people thought this is hilarious is insanity" — Kaitlan Collins
"obviously did they ask any women what they thought about that ad before they posted it? No" — and Swisher's addition was that they evidently did not ask any men either; her son's reaction was are you kidding me
Collins' golf credential is a summer job. She was a cart girl in college in Alabama, driving backwards around the course as, in her words, the rolling concession stand, working 14-hour days and trying to be the best one out there
On why the president's attacks on her are about power rather than about her: "I think with the president it's more of a power thing"
She describes an environment he is used to — cabinet meetings and Oval Office visits where executives take turns praising him as the first president who ever did X, Y and Z for them — and aides who have to devise how to raise a disagreement with him
Her conclusion is that it is the questioning itself they object to, not who is asking. She cited her colleague Kristen Holmes being answered bizarrely for quoting Jon Ossoff
Swisher's observation: "It is always women. It's almost always women, which is interesting"
Why she does not respond: "I never want to get bogged down and some kind of back and forth or argument or fight that becomes about me because I want it to stay focused on the question"
It has been her approach for 10 years, and she says it is never surprising anymore — the White House Correspondents' dinner, the Oval Office, any of it
Swisher had argued the same case publicly, with Sunny Hostin on The View, against the position that Collins or the room should say something back
Her view is that Collins is handling it exactly right by not having an emotion and doing her job
What Collins does want from the rest of the press corps is follow-ups. Swisher's suggestion was that other reporters repeat the question
Her example is a pandemic briefing where Trump went after Peter Alexander rather than the question, and Collins used her turn to ask what people at home needed — whether to send their kids to school, whether it was safe to bring groceries in
"I just think it's always important to return to the substance" — Kaitlan Collins
Advice for Young Reporters
Swisher told the story of a fellow guest in a green room telling her son that his mom is really smart but should smile more, and her son asking the man if he was 150 years old
Collins says it gets easier to brush off and is genuinely jarring the first time. The job puts you at odds by design, especially covering a taxpayer-funded project or official critically
"you're the one person in that room who they view is like the skunk at the garden party" — Kaitlan Collins
"you can't do it to be liked", and going in expecting anyone to admire the question is the wrong posture
Her one piece of practical advice is preparation, and she says it does more for nerve than anything else: "being prepared, knowing what you're talking about, having follow-up questions ready, knowing what that person's probably going to say in response to your question will give you more confidence going to any of those exchanges than anything else"
Swisher pointed to Collins' follow-up on the Epstein question as the example; Collins' response was "It's still hard"
Predictions: Alabama Football, Head Injuries and a Paramount Settlement
Collins' prediction is college football: "I think my prediction is we're going to go hopefully 10 and 2 this season" for Alabama, with one loss she expects will leave everyone scratching their heads
She goes to as many games as she can, which means the one morning flight to Birmingham after Friday night's show
The team she hates losing to is Georgia; Michigan beat Alabama in Nick Saban's last game before he retired, which she says she still takes personally
Her favorite sports talk host is Paul Finebaum, who she grew up listening to and still catches on FM radio driving in Alabama
Swisher noted that Tim Cook is an Auburn man, which makes him a rival, and that her own son is at Michigan, so she will be at a Michigan game on parents weekend
On the disturbing report about NFL players that week: both said the sport has to act
Collins: "as a parent, it's a huge question because it's terrifying", and the people who carry it are 18-year-olds being asked to weigh a rare talent against their own health and longevity
Swisher did not let her sons play tackle football, only touch, and once told Roger Goodell that they would play "not if I want them to be, mentally disabled by 33"
Both think there are technological answers if the sport gets serious, and Swisher raised AI as one of them
Swisher's prediction is that Paramount settles with Rob Bonta, and that the press releases, personal attacks and weird leaks are coming from Paramount however much it denies them
"They need to settle, and Bonta has shown his ability to settle when it makes a reasonable kind of thing" — Kara Swisher, who calls him clever and spicy and says he has a lot of leverage
She also predicts she cannot wait for the season finale of Furious, on Hulu
Collins had interviewed Bonta that week and stayed inside what she could report. CNN's parent company Warner Brothers is involved, which she says means it still has to be approached and covered as a news story
They asked him whether he had evidence about the leaking; what struck her was how visceral he was about how Paramount has handled it
"he seemed very confident of his position" — Kaitlan Collins, who told him on air it did not sound like he wanted to settle
Collins' bottom line, offered on a day that started with Dolly Parton and ended with a court fight, is that the questions are worth more than the fights they provoke — she keeps asking rather than answering back because "the fact that we got to exist on the same planet as her is so special to me" is the register she would rather leave people in.
Products, Companies & Tools Mentioned
Meta, Facebook and Instagram (Swisher read the settlement in at nearly $17 billion, with a two-hour daily limit, overnight shutoff, no school-hours notifications and new parental controls)
Paramount (The next case on Rob Bonta's desk; Swisher predicts a settlement and blames Paramount for the leaks it denies)
Warner Brothers (CNN's parent company, and the reason Collins flags her own outlet's involvement in the story)
Dollywood and the Imagination Library (The Parton businesses both hosts keep returning to — the park as the one place everyone gets along, the book program as the philanthropy Missouri and Indiana lawmakers cut)
Polymarket and Kalshi (Beat the polls on the South Carolina runoff, and were wrong in Michigan and Wisconsin)
MAGA Inc (Trump's super PAC, which Collins describes as stingy with Republicans and which spent $800,000 on one safe seat)
Good Good Golf and Callaway (Apologized for the ad; Callaway confirmed it approved it before posting)
Flock cameras (The AI license-plate readers Collins puts alongside data centers as a rural backlash issue)
Claude (What Swisher used to identify a monster truck from a photograph after Google image search failed)
Books & Resources Mentioned
Bill Gates' AI essay (Published on his website; warns of one of the most turbulent times in human history, and proposes taxes on AI tokens and bots, jobs reserved for humans, and US-China cooperation on rules)
Kara Swisher's next book (In progress, on what she calls a digital bill of rights)
The MIT report on higher education and AI (Calls for redesigned assessments, more hands-on learning and course-specific rules for AI use)
Here I Am (The PBS documentary on Dolly Parton, which Swisher recommends)
Furious (A Hulu series Swisher is waiting on the season finale of)
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