Cybersecurity & Tech

Scaling Laws: AI Safety Meet Trust & Safety with Ravi Iyer and David Sullivan

Kevin Frazier, David Sullivan, Ravi Iyer
Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 10:00 AM
Discussing trust & safety's relevance to artificial intelligence. 

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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 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.

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Kevin Frazier is an AI Innovation and Law Fellow at UT Austin School of Law and Senior Editor at Lawfare .
David Sullivan is the founding Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. He previously served as program director at the Global Network Initiative.
Ravi Iyer is the managing director of the Psychology of Technology Institute, a project of the University of Southern California Marshall School’s Neely Center and the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Prior to this role, he spent over four years at Meta seeking to understand and improve the platform’s effect on society.
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