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September 8, 2025
Are Humans the Greatest Bottleneck to AI Progress?
We stand at the precipice of a technological revolution that could transform every aspect of business and society. Artificial intelligence promises unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and innovation. Yet, as we survey the corporate landscape today, a troubling pattern emerges: Those who could benefit most from AI are systematically blocking its adoption. The greatest obstacle to our…
September 5, 2025
The Adaptability Dividend: Survival in the Age of Glass-Cannon Technology
The founders of the American republic assumed malice would be constrained by material scarcity: Weapons were expensive, destructive power centralized, and the state’s police and military could deter or punish most offenders. That order is collapsing. The diffusion of advanced technologies is improving the destructive capacity of individuals faster than the defensive capabilities of states….
September 5, 2025
Antitrust Needs to Catch Up with the Pace of Technology
The White House has declared artificial intelligence “non-negotiable” for America’s future. Winning the AI race, the administration argues, is essential to the nation’s prosperity and security. But if the United States is serious about that goal, it needs to rethink how it approaches antitrust, letting fast-moving markets generally solve market power problems on their own….
September 5, 2025
Google Avoids Breakup but Faces New Data Sharing Requirements
This week, D.C. District Court Judge Amit Mehta delivered his long-awaited remedies decision in U.S. v. Google. In the 230-page document, Judge Mehta charted a middle course that reflects both the strength and limitations of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case against the search giant. In part, he readily admitted that courts “must approach the…
September 4, 2025
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 the company, but more importantly, this represents a seismic shift in American industrial policy. To finance the acquisition, the administration is converting previously promised CHIPS…
September 3, 2025
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 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoking their licenses “because they are so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy!!!” Setting aside the question…
August 29, 2025
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 be traced, in part, to a bipartisan consensus that R&D, especially support for basic research, was broadly in the public interest. He explained: [T]he political…
August 27, 2025
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 ping-pong game between the trial and appellate courts. Observing the judicial back-and-forth also proves maddening because sometimes, when Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch prevails against…
August 26, 2025
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, where Erin’s track was just a bit further west — tracking over Miami, along the U.S. east coast, and then making a direct hit on…
August 25, 2025
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, scientific integrity centers on protecting government scientists and the science that they conduct from political interference from higher-ups. For Republicans — who under President Trump…