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New FDA Policies Could Limit the Full Value of AI in Medicine
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JAMA Health Forum

New FDA Policies Could Limit the Full Value of AI in Medicine

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is expanding at an astonishing pace, mirroring the rapid advances in AI technology itself. Some experts within the field predict that in…

The Ivanpah Solar Power Monstrosity Bites the Taxpayers. Again.
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AEIdeas

The Ivanpah Solar Power Monstrosity Bites the Taxpayers. Again.

It was the future. It would demonstrate how to save the planet. It would produce electricity clean and cheap and immune to the vagaries of international shifts in prices, interest…

Protecting Kids and Adults Online: Device-Level Age Authentication
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AEIdeas

Protecting Kids and Adults Online: Device-Level Age Authentication

Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, which involves a constitutional challenge to a Texas age verification law for websites containing sexually explicit…

Restoring the Lost Law of Eavesdropping
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AEIdeas

Restoring the Lost Law of Eavesdropping

Under a standard of recency that allowed me to review a 40-year-old book in 2023, I want to celebrate the very recent publication, over a year ago, of two articles…

Suing OpenAI for ChatGPT-Produced Defamation: A Futile Endeavor?  
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AEIdeas

Suing OpenAI for ChatGPT-Produced Defamation: A Futile Endeavor?  

More than 16 months after I wrote about the defamation-by-chatbot case Walters v. OpenAI, the groundbreaking battle pitting radio show host Mark Walters against the company behind ChatGPT is reaching a pivotal point. Following Georgia…

AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare.
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FedScoop

AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare.

The nation can do better at forecasting AI-driven job and skill changes, including with a data-focused nonprofit that examines the technology’s impact. Markets are the killer app for efficiently organizing…

The FDA’s Risky Action on Compounding Weight Loss Drugs
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STAT

The FDA’s Risky Action on Compounding Weight Loss Drugs

When Makena, a drug designed to prevent preterm births, hit the market in 2011 at $1,500 per dose, it drew rife backlash. The drug was based on an active ingredient…

2024 Tech Year in Review
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AEIdeas

2024 Tech Year in Review

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re taking the time to look back and analyze some of the biggest developments in tech policy. The following represents the technology and innovation…

AI Tutors: Hype or Hope for Education?
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EducationNext

AI Tutors: Hype or Hope for Education?

his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time, they might change education. If AI is a new…

Big Tech’s Data Centers Won’t Get Far Unless the Power Grid Is Regulated Less
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MarketWatch

Big Tech’s Data Centers Won’t Get Far Unless the Power Grid Is Regulated Less

The United States holds a commanding lead in data-center capacity, hosting 37% of the world’s facilities, and being home to the largest data center providers — Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Alphabet. These data…

What’s Next After Court Upholds TikTok Ban
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What’s Next After Court Upholds TikTok Ban

Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld the TikTok divest-or-ban bill against a constitutional challenge. The result was unsurprising given how poorly TikTok fared at…

Did the Courts Just Nuke Environmental Review?
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Did the Courts Just Nuke Environmental Review?

Description AEI fellows James W. Coleman and Adam J. White join Santi Ruiz of the Institute for Progress and Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan Law School to discuss…

Economics of Grid Defection III
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Knowledge Problem

Economics of Grid Defection III

The discussion of grid defection has reemerged with the changes in the technical capabilities of distributed resources, the growth of data center demand, and questions about whether utilities are up…

Message from Voters: Remove Politicized Constraints on Fossil Energy Production
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The Hill

Message from Voters: Remove Politicized Constraints on Fossil Energy Production

On Election Day, voters delivered at least one clear message: Remove the policy roadblocks standing in the way of greater fossil energy production, American oil and natural gas in particular.…

The Roots of Public Mistrust: Science, Policy, and Academic Integrity
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SAPIR

The Roots of Public Mistrust: Science, Policy, and Academic Integrity

Astronomer Carl Sagan observed in his popular 1980 television show Cosmos, “There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; it’s the aperture to finding out what’s…