Gillian Hadfield is Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. She is a Professor of Law and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto.
In our interview, we discuss:

Why humans invented law, and what Gillian describes as "the demand side" for legal infrastructure;
Why social norms continue to be important today and how Ancient Athens managed to use a decentralised system of collective punishment;
The case for "regulatory markets" in governing artificial intelligence, and how governments in the 21st Century need to keep up with rapid advances in technology
"Silly rules" and why seemingly arbitrary norms are actually really important in creating society's normative infrastructures

You can read more about the topics we cover in this episode's write-up: hearthisidea.com/episodes/gillian.
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