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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.…

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

Flawed Appellate Decision Upholding an Online Parental-Consent Mandate Merits Reversal
Article
AEIdeas

Flawed Appellate Decision Upholding an Online Parental-Consent Mandate Merits Reversal

A federal appellate court recently rejected First Amendment and vagueness challenges to an Ohio parental-consent statute that limits minors’ access to social media platforms “reasonably anticipated to be accessed by…

An OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Broke Into Another Company to Cheat on a Test
Article
AEIdeas

An OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Broke Into Another Company to Cheat on a Test

The deeper problem is that too many policymakers are still legislating for a ChatGPT-3.5 world of chatbots predicting the next token, not for agents that think and act autonomously to…

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

Who Should Control America’s Spectrum?
Article
AEIdeas

Who Should Control America’s Spectrum?

Shane is joined by Roslyn Layton to discuss how market-based reforms and greater reliance on commercial networks could modernize American spectrum policy.

War on Data Centers a Front in Vital Fight for AI
Op-Ed
Washington Examiner

War on Data Centers a Front in Vital Fight for AI

The unlikely coalition behind the concerted, overblown campaign against the engines of technology growth.

Can Markets Modernize Spectrum? (with Roslyn Layton)
Podcast

Can Markets Modernize Spectrum? (with Roslyn Layton)

Americans rely on wireless connections for nearly every part of modern life, and demand for the airwaves that make those connections possible is only growing. But much of the nation’s…

The Mythos Moment and the Reordering of AI Governance
Article
Exformation

The Mythos Moment and the Reordering of AI Governance

Export controls, secret benchmarks, and the quiet arrival of an ad hoc licensing regime

Beijing Wants to Lock Down AI. Washington Should Open It Up
Op-Ed
The American Conservative

Beijing Wants to Lock Down AI. Washington Should Open It Up

The contest for primacy in the 21st century will not be won by denying advanced AI to others. It will be won by making American technology so ubiquitous and essential…

A Ceaseless Struggle: Stopping Attorneys from Citing Fake, AI-Generated Content
Article
AEIdeas

A Ceaseless Struggle: Stopping Attorneys from Citing Fake, AI-Generated Content

Some attorneys continue to cite fake content generated by artificial intelligence tools. The problem now doesn’t just involve non-existent cases, but invented quotations and false factual assertions working their way…

America Is Improvising Its Way Through AI Governance
Article
AEIdeas

America Is Improvising Its Way Through AI Governance

The ideas for governing this technology are maturing fast. The institution capable of holding them is not. Closing that gap, before the models write the next models, is the real…

The AI revolution is running ahead of the workplace
Op-Ed
Washington Examiner

The AI revolution is running ahead of the workplace

The Farmall eventually transformed farming across the Corn Belt. But it required the right conditions and farms ready to reorganize around it. AI may follow the same path. But the…