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The Rising Cost of Cybercrime: From Billions to Trillions
Blog Post
AEIdeas

The Rising Cost of Cybercrime: From Billions to Trillions

More than $16 billion has been stolen in 2024 due to cybercrime schemes such as phishing and data breaches, with losses projected to reach the trillions in 2025. This sharp rise in…

Where Are the CHIPS Going to Fall?
Article
AEIdeas

Where Are the CHIPS Going to Fall?

Late last month, President Trump announced that the US government would be taking a 10 percent stake in Intel. The move makes the US government the single largest shareholder in…

First Amendment Problems with Removing Bias in Speech Marketplaces via Government Intervention
Article
AEIdeas

First Amendment Problems with Removing Bias in Speech Marketplaces via Government Intervention

In an August 24 post on Truth Social, Donald Trump called ABC and NBC News “two of the worst and most biased networks in history.” The president said he’d support…

Science Policy without Science or Policy
Article
The Honest Broker

Science Policy without Science or Policy

Writing almost 20 years ago, science policy scholar Dan Sarewitz made a remarkable observation about federal support for research and development (R&D):1 Sarewitz argued that the long-term stability in R&D funding can…

DNS Abuse and the Economics of Cybercrime (with Karen Rose)
Podcast

DNS Abuse and the Economics of Cybercrime (with Karen Rose)

The Domain Name System (DNS)—the system that turns numerical IP addresses into easy-to-read website names—has become highly competitive at the registrar level, with potentially harmful consequences when it comes to…

Filling in the Blanks in NetChoice v. Fitch: Is First Amendment Doctrine in Danger?
Article
AEIdeas

Filling in the Blanks in NetChoice v. Fitch: Is First Amendment Doctrine in Danger?

Tracking the fate of Mississippi’s age-verification and parental-consent law for social media account holders in the face of a First Amendment challenge in NetChoice v. Fitch is like watching a…

Extreme Non-Event Attribution
Article
The Honest Broker

Extreme Non-Event Attribution

Last week, Hurricane Erin was a massive Category 5 storm that shot the gap between the U.S. east coast and Bermuda before heading out to sea. Imagine an alternative universe,…

Trump vs Biden on Science Integrity
Article
The Honest Broker

Trump vs Biden on Science Integrity

Since the George W. Bush administration and under both parties, the White House has focused on scientific integrity. However, Republicans and Democrats have conflicting views on what that means.  For Democrats,…

Does the CHIPS and Science Act Argue for Industrial Policy?
Report
The American Enterprise Institute

Does the CHIPS and Science Act Argue for Industrial Policy?

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…

UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts
Article
New York Post

UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts

Life would be impossible without experts — doctors help us when we get sick, mechanics fix our cars when they break down, farmers produce our food, to name just a…

Secrecy in Tension with Democracy and Privacy
Article
AEIdeas

Secrecy in Tension with Democracy and Privacy

When someone attacks your democracy, it tends to stick in your craw. I don’t know that democracy is the last, best way to arrange human affairs, but if we’re going…

AI Is Changing—Not Stealing—Our Jobs and Lives
Article
AEIdeas

AI Is Changing—Not Stealing—Our Jobs and Lives

There was much angst surrounding AI as it loomed as a potential part of daily life, even among the so-called AI experts. But is it warranted? Physicist Niels Bohr is…

When Harry Became Sally | Interview: Carole Hooven
Podcast
The Dispatch

When Harry Became Sally | Interview: Carole Hooven

Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologist and nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the differences between gender and sex, homosexuality in the animal kingdom, and epigenetics.

What Does Agentic AI Mean for Interoperability, User Freedom, and Privacy?
Article
AEIdeas

What Does Agentic AI Mean for Interoperability, User Freedom, and Privacy?

Agentic AI, or automated systems that are capable of completing tasks and making decisions without human intervention, requires interoperability to remain innovative and competitive. But what does this degree of…

Article
The Honest Broker

A Takeover of the IPCC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the names of its authors for its seventh assessment report (AR7). The author list for its Chapter 3 — Changes in regional climate…