Executive Summary: Gene synthesis screening is an effective tool to prevent dangerous pathogens from moving from digital design to physical reality. Mandatory screening will likely provide substantial benefits at modest…
By Anemone Franz | Rachel Hovde | Scott Weathers | February 2, 2026
Key Points Read the PDF (text version below): Editor’s Note In 1986, the American Enterprise Institute published The Politics of Industrial Policy, a collection of essays edited by AEI Senior Fellow…
By Jeffrey A. Hart | January 14, 2026
This paper is part of AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy’s (CTSE) Science, Industry, and the State Project Key Points Executive Summary In the past decade, two compelling changes…
By Derek Scissors | August 25, 2025
Key Points How Does Semiconductor Trade Work? How is it that South Korea—one of the world’s most important makers of the chips critical for goods from cars to computers—imports more…
By Chris Miller | July 25, 2025
Abstract Telecommunications networks have become one of modern society’s critical infrastructures (CIs): things required for everyday life and without which widespread disruption can be expected. Historically, the responsibility for ensuring…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 29, 2025
A survey of perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in 31 countries in 2023 yields significantly less positive perceptions of the new technology in developed western economies than in emerging and non-western…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 3, 2025
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By Lynne Kiesling | February 21, 2025
Key Points Executive Summary The global energy landscape is transforming, and nowhere is this more evident than the electricity sector. Technological advancements, shifting economic conditions, and evolving environmental policies are…
By L. Lynne Kiesling | Daniel Lyons | Rimvydas Baltaduonis | Cameron Brooks | Sanya Carley | Steve Cicala | James Connaughton | Michael Giberson | Bryan Hannegan | Devin Hartman | Tom Hassenboehler | Michael Hogan | Travis Kavulla | Joshua Macey | Meghan Nutting | Michael Pugh | Pat Wood | Audrey Zibelman | February 20, 2025
Millions of Americans face diseases that lack treatment options, while many more face impairments in independence as a result of inadequately treated medical conditions. Innovation in the life sciences offers…
By Brian J. Miller | Ted Cho | February 5, 2025
Key Points Read the PDF. Executive Summary Generative AI has attracted great attention in the policymaking sphere, including for agency rulemaking. This report compares a final rule drafted by a…
By Connor Raso | January 16, 2025
Key Points Read the pdf. Executive Summary New and increasingly capable artificial intelligence applications are a fact of life. They offer great promise of advances in human welfare but also…
By Bronwyn Howell | October 31, 2024
SummaryEnergy “savings” as asserted by DoE in its notional CRE Standards as analyzed in theNotice of Data Availability and Request for Comment are illegitimate as a benefit of any suchStandards…
By Benjamin Zycher | September 23, 2024
Key Points Read the pdf. The precautionary principle (PP) holds that in the face of scientific uncertainty about the outcomes of deploying a new technology, and especially when serious or…
By Bronwyn Howell | September 10, 2024
Key Points Executive Summary The aftermath of a global public health crisis, combined with the rise of populism at home and growing economic and security threats abroad, has persuaded a…
By M. Anthony Mills | July 17, 2024
Abstract For more than two decades, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published a count of weather-related disasters in the United States that it estimates have exceeded…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 6, 2024