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Age Gating, Indian-Style
Article
AEIdeas

Age Gating, Indian-Style

The Indian experience with digital identity verification using Aadhaar may prove informative if the need to ensure child social media safety is seen to be sufficiently important to necessitate the…

AI Governance and Open Models: Who Controls the Pace of Innovation? (with Milton Mueller and Adam Thierer)
Podcast

AI Governance and Open Models: Who Controls the Pace of Innovation? (with Milton Mueller and Adam Thierer)

Employees at several leading AI companies are asking the US government and international bodies to slow the development of frontier models. Doing so would put governments in the position of…

Human-by-Law: The Legal Prohibitions That Will Limit Transformative AI
Article
AEIdeas

Human-by-Law: The Legal Prohibitions That Will Limit Transformative AI

How our political and legal system answers these questions will determine how deeply AI transforms the economy.

Another Parental-Consent Statute, Another Injunction: Lessons from Nebraska’s Sweeping Law
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AEIdeas

Another Parental-Consent Statute, Another Injunction: Lessons from Nebraska’s Sweeping Law

A preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a Cornhusker State law that imposes digital age-verification and parental-consent obligations on social media platforms before minors can hold accounts carries important First Amendment…

Flock Camera Systems May Face a Constitutional Reckoning
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AEIdeas

Flock Camera Systems May Face a Constitutional Reckoning

We have long conceived of searches and seizures as discrete events aimed at suspects of crime. Technology has a way of remixing things. Through Flock, Kansas maintains an ongoing search…

AI Poses Opportunities, Risks for Higher Education
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AEIdeas

AI Poses Opportunities, Risks for Higher Education

By revealing higher education’s overreliance on outputs as a proxy for learning, the AI revolution is prompting universities back to their mission: forming educated, discerning citizens who pursue truth.

AI-Powered Industry in Australia: What’s So New?
Article
AEIdeas

AI-Powered Industry in Australia: What’s So New?

Why when Prime Minister Albanese announced the AI strategy did he omit mention of mining? Perhaps because that industry needed neither government strategy nor funding to become a world AI…

Is AI Moving Too Quickly for Cybersecurity?
Article
AEIdeas

Is AI Moving Too Quickly for Cybersecurity?

Shane is joined by Evan Swarztrauber to discuss whether AI is moving too fast for the systems designed to contain its cyber risks.

Chilling Political Dissent: Are LLMs Censoring Output Criticizing Restrictive Regimes?
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AEIdeas

Chilling Political Dissent: Are LLMs Censoring Output Criticizing Restrictive Regimes?

In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought public comment about its proposed policy statement addressing the Commission’s concern that artificial intelligence companies train large language models (LLMs) to “surreptitiously…

Australia Goes Again with “World-Leading” AI Strategy?
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AEIdeas

Australia Goes Again with “World-Leading” AI Strategy?

Arguably, given the scale of the Australian economy, the incentives to protect that economy from competitive rivals and to grow it where possible to take advantage of what new technologies…

Why Trump v. Slaughter won’t scare off AI investment
Commentary
The Washington Examiner

Why Trump v. Slaughter won’t scare off AI investment

For more than two centuries, the U.S. has attracted investment not because any single regulator kept their job, but because no single institution could easily rewrite the rules on its…

Breakthrough Models and New Cyber Threats (with Evan Swarztrauber)
Podcast

Breakthrough Models and New Cyber Threats (with Evan Swarztrauber)

Until recently, concerns about AI agents conducting autonomous cyber operations were largely theoretical. The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident in July changed that, while Anthropic’s Mythos exposed software vulnerabilities buried  for decades.…

Florida Should Welcome Data Centers as It Does Other Businesses
Article
Orlando Sentinel

Florida Should Welcome Data Centers as It Does Other Businesses

AI will reshape the economy whether Florida participates or not. We should not shackle our state, causing our children and grandchildren to fall behind. The question facing the next governor…

The Water Fight Over Data Centers Is a Distraction. The Grid Fight Is the Real Story.
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AEIdeas

The Water Fight Over Data Centers Is a Distraction. The Grid Fight Is the Real Story.

Data centers have become a cipher, the visible stand-in for a more diffuse set of anxieties surrounding the advent of AI, including job displacement, distrust of Big Tech, and a…

In the Chip War, Export Bans Have Worked. But We’re Still Losing Ground
Commentary
The National Interest

In the Chip War, Export Bans Have Worked. But We’re Still Losing Ground

Export controls have slowed China’s semiconductor ambitions, but older chipmaking equipment is enabling Beijing to narrow the AI hardware gap.