The “break” in US trade policy came under Trump and Biden, not in the 1990s. Recently, a spate of news stories has attempted to predict future US trade policy under a potential…
By Claude Barfield | June 10, 2024
In May, the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, comprising sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Todd Young (R-IN), issued a report, Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the…
By Clay Calvert | June 5, 2024
The practice of think-tankery provides one very little feedback. It’s a bit like shouting into the wind. One can’t be sure of being heard, and the winds of malign policy…
By Jim Harper | June 4, 2024
“I’m different from you,” the advanced artificial intelligence chatbot named Samantha tells Joaquin Phoenix’s protagonist in her low, sultry voice in director Spike Jonze’s 2013 hit film Her. “This doesn’t make me love…
By Michael M. Rosen | May 31, 2024
It’s relatively rare to peer directly into the constitutional thinking of sitting US Supreme Court justices. Although such glimpses surface most visibly in the opinions justices join or author, they also are…
By Clay Calvert | May 30, 2024
Reclassification opponents have long warned that net neutrality could be a Trojan horse for broadband rate regulation. Partly in response to this criticism, the Federal Communications Commission’s recent Title II…
By Daniel Lyons | May 29, 2024
The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, comprising Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) have released their long-anticipated Roadmap for…
By John Bailey | May 22, 2024
Safeguarding minors from harms ostensibly caused by allegedly addictive speech-based technologies: That’s the impetus stoking a nationwide wave of lawsuits and legislation that collectively seek to compensate minors for injuries…
By Clay Calvert | May 21, 2024
A recent Australian court battle between the country’s eSafety commissioner (overseeing Australia’s self-professed “world leading” Online Safety Act) and Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) reveals issues about internet content and free speech. Should the laws, interpretations and enforcement…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 20, 2024
When it comes to deploying a new technology, there are no guarantees. While developers and policymakers do their best to minimize risk, innovation always requires a leap of faith. The…
By James Pethokoukis | Bronwyn Howell | May 17, 2024
Another month, another copyright infringement suit filed against OpenAI. In addition to previous litigation brought against artificial intelligence firms by the New York Times Company, an alliance of prominent authors, and…
By Michael M. Rosen | May 17, 2024
As some nations move to clog up the internet with cross-border data impediments and forced data localization, the US remains on the sidelines, crippled by the Biden administration’s bow to the anti-global,…
By Claude Barfield | May 16, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies pose risks to individuals and society. These vary from the mundane to the catastrophic. Will we be exposed to distasteful content on social media platforms? Will we be hit…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 13, 2024
Much of the field of Internet Law centers on the difficulty of how to apply offline law to online conduct. Because online activity is inherently communicative, the regulation of online…
By Daniel Lyons | May 10, 2024
Can artificial intelligence assist conservative jurists in pursuing an originalist text, history, and tradition approach for interpreting and applying the US Constitution? Can it help them better ferret out––more accurately and efficiently––the original…
By Clay Calvert | May 8, 2024