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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.

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
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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…

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…

Is AI Moving Too Quickly for Cybersecurity?
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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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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
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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…

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.

We Should not Balkanize the Space Economy
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AEIdeas

We Should not Balkanize the Space Economy

The US and Europe have a mutual interest in a shared, robust LEO infrastructure, created and run by private companies, focused on serving customers. The economic, security, and safety benefits…