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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Michael Rosen |Kate Beinkampen
Will artificial intelligence help, replace, or kill us? These long-unanswered questions came back into focus earlier this week, as the Pew Research Center published the results of an eye-opening poll that further underscores an unhappy trend: our debate about AI is fundamentally broken. Pew found that more than half of all American workers reported being “worried about how AI may be used in the workplace in the future,” with an additional 36 percent saying they’re “hopeful” about the technology.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Shane Tews |Kate Beinkampen
Creating and managing a positive digital environment for children has become a priority for parents, lawmakers, and technology companies. However, as proposals progress to develop solutions and implement protections, we must ensure that our approaches address parents’ concerns without creating additional issues from the extensive collection of minors’ data.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
aei.org | Shane Tews |Kate Beinkampen
As artificial intelligence transforms the global economy, the success of America’s AI strategy depends on the expertise and leadership of administration officials nominated and confirmed by Congress. These public servants are essential in turning technological opportunities into real benefits for Americans while ensuring responsible innovation and economic growth.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
aei.org | Will Rinehart |Kate Beinkampen
I haven’t written about tariffs at all, leaving it to Scott Lincicome to cover the ins and outs of tariff policy for Dispatch readers. But with the escalating trade war and a lot of open questions, I thought I would take a crack at trying to steelman President Donald Trump’s tariffs. While his rhetoric often seems impulsive, Trump’s push for tariffs reflects a deeper transformation in American politics and policy. The free trade orthodoxy is being transformed into something else.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
aei.org | Daniel Lyons |Kate Beinkampen
Last week I discussed the Sixth Circuit decision classifying broadband as a Title I information service and effectively eliminating the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) general power to regulate broadband. But like nature, regulators abhor a vacuum. While closing the door to federal regulators, the decision also creates opportunities for states to act. This post examines the present and potential future of state-level broadband regulation.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
aei.org | Clay Calvert |Kate Beinkampen
Much ink is being spilled over Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s January 7 announcement and a related statement by executive Joel Kaplan about the company replacing its platforms’ prior content-moderation efforts with a more laissez-faire, free-speech-friendly approach. The changes were likely influenced not only by a desire to please incoming President Donald Trump but also by the outgoing Biden administration’s efforts to squelch content that conflicted with its preferred narratives. Changes.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
aei.org | Jim Harper |Kate Beinkampen
Under a standard of recency that allowed me to review a 40-year-old book in 2023, I want to celebrate the very recent publication, over a year ago, of two articles on the law of eavesdropping. Historically, there was fairly robust law on listening in. Given new technological forms of secret overhearing, that law may have applications in the present day. There is a reason we have student-run law reviews and writings. When students dive into a subject, they have to learn the whole thing.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
aei.org | Kate Beinkampen
With a new Congress sworn in last week and the second Trump administration eager to implement policy changes through the executive branch, our scholars are looking to the year ahead and examining the potential tech policy changes on the horizon. With the policy and technology landscape uncertain in the year to come, leaders should base their decision-making on proven approaches to managing complexity and uncertainty.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
aei.org | Daniel Lyons |Kate Beinkampen
My fellow tech policy enthusiasts, our long national nightmare is over. Last week, the Sixth Circuit brought an end to the decade-long fight over net neutrality by prohibiting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from applying Title II common carrier regulation to broadband providers. The decision is a victory for tech policy, freeing Internet access from the shadow of overbearing regulation.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
aei.org | Clay Calvert |Kate Beinkampen
More than 16 months after I wrote about the defamation-by-chatbot case of Walters v. OpenAI, the groundbreaking battle pitting radio show host Mark Walters against the company behind ChatGPT is reaching a pivotal point. Following Georgia Superior Court Judge Tracie Cason’s refusal last January to dismiss Walters’ claim that OpenAI is civilly liable for defamatory output generated about him by ChatGPT, the parties conducted discovery.
