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Unpacking Meta’s Massive Settlement with State Attorneys General Over Alleged Harms to Minors
Article
AEIdeas

Unpacking Meta’s Massive Settlement with State Attorneys General Over Alleged Harms to Minors

Last month’s settlement between Meta Platforms and the attorneys general of 48 states entails both monetary payments and design changes to Facebook and Instagram. It also attempts to get competitors…

New Zealand’s New Dose of the Canberra Age-Gating Contagion Portends Political Purpose
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AEIdeas

New Zealand’s New Dose of the Canberra Age-Gating Contagion Portends Political Purpose

Political courage requires putting social media age-gating proposals through proportionate policy analysis rather than profiting on the political popularity of imperfect laws.

Can AI Make Justice More Just?
Article
AEIdeas

Can AI Make Justice More Just?

Shane is joined by Benjamin Alarie, and they discuss how AI could reshape legal practice, accelerate lawyers’ learning and work, and make the legal system more accessible.

Why Regulate Chatbots? Florida’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Offers Possibilities
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Why Regulate Chatbots? Florida’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Offers Possibilities

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT likely offers a plaintiff’s playbook against chatbot companies while also telegraphing to lawmakers purported problems with chatbots…

A California Showdown Over Platforms’ Expressive Rights, Users’ Interests, and Personalized Algorithmic Feeds
Article
AEIdeas

A California Showdown Over Platforms’ Expressive Rights, Users’ Interests, and Personalized Algorithmic Feeds

Google, Meta, and TikTok are fighting a California statute that targets personalized content feeds to minors and raises important questions about both the First Amendment expressive rights of platforms in…

Regulating AI in an Age of Global Competition
Article
AEIdeas

Regulating AI in an Age of Global Competition

Shane is joined by Adam and Milton to discuss the ongoing debate over AI governance.

Adam Smith’s Warning for America’s New Socialists
Commentary
National Review

Adam Smith’s Warning for America’s New Socialists

Today’s leftists make the mistake of assuming politicians can rearrange our economic outcomes.

Trump’s Posts May Prove Comey’s Vindictive and Selective Prosecution Claims
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AEIdeas

Trump’s Posts May Prove Comey’s Vindictive and Selective Prosecution Claims

James Comey’s recent motion to dismiss his seashells threats indictment on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds relies partly on President Trump’s own social media posts. This motion to dismiss is…

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
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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?
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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…