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June 18, 2025
Outcome in Precedent-Setting Libel Case Against OpenAI is Good Public Policy
Imagine a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tool such as ChatGPT produces false and defamatory content about you in response to a journalist’s query. The journalist then incorporates the same libelous statements into an article that her newspaper publishes. What are your odds of winning a libel case against the maker of the GenAI tool? They’re…
June 17, 2025
Two Cheers for the AI Moratorium!
We need to get ahead of this thing. I’ve heard this refrain countless times over the past two years in AI policy circles. But listen closely, and you’ll discover the real message underneath, a quiet admission of past failure: We didn’t move quickly enough when it came to social media and we cannot make the same…
June 13, 2025
NTIA Streamlines BEAD Program, But Risks Further Delays
On June 6, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) issued its long-awaited overhaul of the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. This new policy notice repeals many administrative burdens imposed by Biden-era NTIA oversight and aligns the program more closely with Congress’s original intent. This revised guidance promises to enhance broadband…
June 12, 2025
The Gig Economy Benefits Freelance Workers—Until Regulation Steps In
In recent years, the gig economy has become a lightning rod for political debate. Lawmakers and activists warn that Uber drivers, online freelancers, and other contract workers are trapped in a precarious labor market—competing against one another for jobs, lacking benefits, and excluded from basic workplace protections. California has led efforts to regulate this space,…
June 11, 2025
Pew Survey Shows Growing Skepticism Toward Federal Censorship of Online Speech
A recent Pew Research Center survey suggests slightly more public support––albeit still far from optimal––for a robust online marketplace of ideas in which the federal government and technology companies refrain from policing falsities. Conducted more than a month after Donald Trump retook the Oval Office, the survey queried 5,123 Americans. The findings put light tailwinds…
June 9, 2025
Let the Market Work
The Trump administration is trying to fix a market that isn’t broken—and in doing so, it risks breaking the parts that are working just fine. That’s the irony at the heart of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) proposed remedies in its antitrust case against Google. Following the lead of the Biden DOJ, the Trump DOJ…
June 6, 2025
Are Software Jobs Collapsing?
The image below, which appeared in the Financial Times, has been gaining traction on the Internet because it seems to show what people in the software industry fear most: The introduction of new groups of AI models has collapsed the software industry. Beginning in 2022 and gaining momentum through 2023, the tech industry experienced a…
June 5, 2025
Reclaimed Words and a Meta Oversight Board Decision Reveal Problems with Policing Online Hate Speech
To appreciate the complexities of policing online hate speech that underlie an April summary decision by Meta’s Oversight Board, let’s start with a musical detour through a 2017 US Supreme Court opinion called Matal v. Tam. The Court faced the First Amendment question in Matal of whether the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) could…
June 4, 2025
Expect an AI Shock to Change the Job Market, Not Destroy It
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “The Real Story of the ‘China Shock‘,” economists James J. Heckman (a Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago) and Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania) argue that the turn-of-the-century trade disruption primarily shifted jobs from one region to another rather than eliminating them nationwide. Moreover, they contend that Chinese…
June 4, 2025
The Intelligence of Things Is Here—Reflections from Google I/O 2025
Recently, I had the privilege of attending Google’s I/O developer conference with colleagues Will Rinehart and Shane Tews. The event featured (literally) 100 AI announcements and live demonstrations, including Waymo and Wing drone delivery. Reflecting on the two days, several themes emerged reshaping technology and society. AI Integration Everywhere Analyst Ben Thompson said he was…