Sarah Rogers

8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2026 by Sarah Rogers · across every show →

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May 4, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Rogers: Courts are ruling that AI training constitutes fair use
“So we've seen a lot of good rulings from courts that training AI is fair use.”
Sarah Rogers May 4, 2026 ▶ 14:27 Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
May 4, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Rogers: AI with a Western soul is America's greatest soft power tool
“The economist Tyler Cowen talks about AI with a Western soul. And I completely agree with him that that is the greatest soft power tool we can possess.”
Sarah Rogers May 4, 2026 ▶ 0:25 Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
May 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Rogers: AI military policy must be set by courts, not tech executives
“I think what is essential from a national security, national defense perspective Is that AI keeps its Western soul and that these really important debates about what you know, what kill shot the autonomous weapon should take or what the scope of data synthesis…”
Sarah Rogers May 4, 2026 ▶ 17:09 Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
May 4, 2026
Disclosure
Rogers: Represented NRA in prominent financial debanking and selective enforcement case
“I represented the NRA in a prominent case where, The regulations being enforced were ostensibly viewpoint neutral ones, but there was strong evidence that they were being enforced disproportionately against banks that allowed pro-gun groups to contract for fin…”
Sarah Rogers May 4, 2026 ▶ 19:52 Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
May 4, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Rogers: Twitter moderation once banned calling a male sex offender male
“Like, we have seen tech workers make decisions, for example, that you should, it should not be permissible on Twitter to call a convicted sex offender, a male, which he is.”
Sarah Rogers May 4, 2026 ▶ 17:49 Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
May 4, 2026 negative
Insight
Rogers: Disclosing AI model weights compromises Western competitive edge
“If you force companies to disclose aspects of the AI that let foreign adversaries, for example, reverse engineer the model weights, you're really compromising the American and the Western competitive edge.”
Sarah Rogers May 4, 2026 ▶ 15:01 Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
May 4, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rogers: Digital Freedom Office will prioritize transparency and free expression
“In the State Department's reorganization, I acquired the Digital Freedom Office, which is basically, under my tenure, the opposite of that, so I'm pursuing transparency, truth, and reconciliation on prior censorship, and I am making freedom of expression, ah, …”
Sarah Rogers May 4, 2026 ▶ 2:43 Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
May 4, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Rogers: Draft foreign legislation imposes strict criminal liability on LLM output
“And I've seen draft legislation that imposes like strict criminal liability if the LLM Is even capable of generating certain kinds of content.”
Sarah Rogers May 4, 2026 ▶ 16:13 Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
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