Summary
On The Prof G Pod, Scott Galloway talks with Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), about the state of free speech in America. The conversation covers the Trump administration’s pressure on the press, including the exclusion of Politico, CNN, and MS Now from the White House press pool, and the rise of AI tools that make it harder to tell what speech is real.
A central thread is how AI regulation could shape free expression. Lukianoff’s biggest fear is that regulation becomes an excuse for government to control the knowledge function of AI, giving power the ability to tell everyone what is true. The better outcome, he argues, is a distributed, liberal system that helps people understand the world through disconfirmation. The two also debate whether bots have free speech rights, concluding that bots do not but their creators generally do, and why platforms tolerate bot traffic.
The episode also covers FIRE’s latest college free speech rankings, based on a survey of nearly 63,000 students across 262 schools, and what it means to defend speech you find offensive.
📺 Source: The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway · Published October 28, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
