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Antitrust Enforcers Overstate Market Power, Understate Market Value
Op-Ed
RealClearMarkets

Antitrust Enforcers Overstate Market Power, Understate Market Value

The danger is not simply that regulators may overestimate market power. It is that they underestimate market value.

Winning the AI race isn’t about building better AI. It’s about using it better
Op-Ed
Washington Examiner

Winning the AI race isn’t about building better AI. It’s about using it better

America has already demonstrated that it can lead in creating artificial intelligence. The next challenge is proving that we can lead in applying it.

A Federal Privacy Law Must Face the Tradeoffs
Article
AEIdeas

A Federal Privacy Law Must Face the Tradeoffs

A federal privacy law with meaningful preemption would not eliminate every cost of privacy regulation, but it would make those costs more predictable and more uniform.

The Internet’s Continuous Crime Problem, and How the Domain Industry Is Profiting From It
Article
AEIdeas

The Internet’s Continuous Crime Problem, and How the Domain Industry Is Profiting From It

The domain name registration market has a serious but solvable problem: An estimated one in five sales currently benefit criminal actors. New research puts that reality in sharp focus, and…

What the Pope’s Encyclical Misses About Language
Op-Ed
The Dispatch

What the Pope’s Encyclical Misses About Language

We should express due appreciation for the pontiff’s profound effort to understand AI, and we should also welcome and encourage the unique power of language—its ability to bridge gaps, to…

Can Congress Use AI?
Article
AEIdeas

Can Congress Use AI?

Shane is joined by Aubrey Wilson to discuss how Congress can provide members and staff with the training, guardrails, and practical support they need to use AI responsibly and effectively. 

Government-Compelled Speech and the Groundhog Dayification of Social Media Regulation
Article
AEIdeas

Government-Compelled Speech and the Groundhog Dayification of Social Media Regulation

Lawmakers can break free from their Groundhog Day-like repetitive cycle of statutory futility in regulating social media platforms by adopting their own public-information campaigns and digital literacy programs to help…

Generative AI Spam Clogs the Paths to Justice: Is More AI the Answer?
Article
AEIdeas

Generative AI Spam Clogs the Paths to Justice: Is More AI the Answer?

As we proceed deeper into an AI economy where scarce but expensive human resources are required to buttress against the excesses of (near-costlessly generated) AI spam, such taxes offer an…

Cartoon Preemption in Federal Privacy Legislation
Article
AEIdeas

Cartoon Preemption in Federal Privacy Legislation

The SECURE Data Act would improperly sweep away state laws and legal approaches that help protect privacy and data security.

The European Commission’s New Proposed Regulations Want to Re-Engineer Your Smartphone
Article
AEIdeas

The European Commission’s New Proposed Regulations Want to Re-Engineer Your Smartphone

The smartphone is a meticulously engineered security architecture, and the European Commission's Draft Measures under the Digital Markets Act now threaten its integrity.

AI in the Everyday: Notes from Google I/O
Article
AEIdeas

AI in the Everyday: Notes from Google I/O

A week ago, I had the chance to attend Google I/O, which made one thing clear: the next phase of AI isn't about the extraordinary. It's about the everyday.

Congressional Use of Artificial Intelligence (with Aubrey Wilson)
Podcast

Congressional Use of Artificial Intelligence (with Aubrey Wilson)

Artificial intelligence is being integrated into nearly every industry, but how is Congress using AI? As policymakers and their staff work to serve their constituents, can AI be used as…

Chatrie After-Action: Lock Up Your Stuff
Article
AEIdeas

Chatrie After-Action: Lock Up Your Stuff

Chatrie will make it no wiser to rely on legal protections. You must lock up your own stuff.

AI Cybersecurity Can’t Wait for Washington: Why Industry Must Lead
Article
AEIdeas

AI Cybersecurity Can’t Wait for Washington: Why Industry Must Lead

Industry must lead in AI cybersecurity. The government must be ready to keep up.

Lessons From Arkansas: Social Media Addiction Legislation is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary
Article
AEIdeas

Lessons From Arkansas: Social Media Addiction Legislation is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary

An April decision by a federal court in Arkansas illustrates why legislation designed to prevent the supposed scourge–moral panic?–of social media addiction is both unconstitutional and unwarranted.