Shobita and Jack discuss the Innovation and Competition Act making its way through the US Congress as well as the most up-to-date geopolitics of COVID, including the TRIPS waiver and the "lab leak" theory. And we interview Kate Crawford, a leading scholar on the social and political implications of artificial intelligence.- Kate Crawford (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Yale University Press.Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018). Anatomy of an AI System.- Alex Campolo and Kate Crawford (2020). "Enchanted Determinism: Power without Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence". Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. 6: 1-19.Transcript and study questions available at www.thereceivedwisdom.org.