Will Rinehart

1 month ago | exformation.williamrinehart.com | Will Rinehart

ICYMI: Utah is considering a bill that would force social media companies to share social graph data. My recent op-ed in the Deseret News, and its accompanying tweet thread, explains this bill and why social media interoperability isn't the best path forward. I also had an op-ed in City Journal explaining how supersonic jets could transform air travel. Policymakers are rushing to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), but the economic impact of these regulations remains largely unexplored.

2 months ago | exformation.williamrinehart.com | Will Rinehart

Friends,It has been over a year since we last chatted and a lot has happened, so I thought I would send you an update on my life and what will become of this space. Around this time last year, I switched jobs, becoming a Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. My ambit hasn’t changed, I’m still closely following tech and innovation policy, but I’m spending most of my time working to ensure we have smart AI policy.

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Clare Coffey |Jeffrey Bilbro |Stefanie Sanford |Will Rinehart

The Monday Essay The online oasis that is the YouTube comments section. Published March 3, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. The internet was probably never a net pleasant or edifying place.

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Nathan J. Beacom |Will Rinehart |Michael Brown |Charles Hilu

When the phonograph was invented, the composer John Phillip Sousa was heartbroken. In a 1906 article on “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” he worried out loud that recording tools would reduce music from a matter of the heart and soul to a mere mechanical process. To us, this sounds ridiculous. It is clear that we have gained a great deal by the advancement of recording technology, which makes available to us a massive variety of beautiful music.

2 months ago | aei.org | Will Rinehart

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental United States, reaching 750 miles per hour (Mach 1.12) near Barstow, California. You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the sound barrier.