The era of Big Tech, artificial intelligence, Donald Trump, and the United States’ great-power competition with China has thrust technology policy to the center of our national politics. Are new…
By Anthony M. Mills | Christine Rosen | February 5, 2025
There is little doubt that the emergence of low-orbit satellite services has revolutionized rural broadband connectivity. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has launched over 5,000 satellites, providing low-latency, fast, and…
By Bronwyn Howell | January 31, 2025
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…
By Daniel Lyons | January 30, 2025
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…
By Jim Harper | January 13, 2025
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…
By Clay Calvert | January 8, 2025
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…
By Brent Orrell | January 3, 2025
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…
By The Editors | December 30, 2024
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…
By John Bailey | December 23, 2024
Event Summary On December 5, AEI’s Christine Rosen hosted a conference on understanding the shifting conception of truth in the media, especially as it relates to political culture and social…
By M. Anthony Mills | Christine Rosen | Will Rinhart | December 23, 2024
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…
By Daniel Lyons | December 20, 2024
As President Trump takes office for the second time, a pressing question will be how to handle the Biden administration’s legacy of targeting large businesses. In 2021, President Biden issued…
By Mark Jamison | November 20, 2024
As the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz and Donald Trump-JD Vance campaigns pour resources into Maine to compete for electoral votes, both the Vice President and former President Trump could benefit from…
By Mark Jamison | October 31, 2024
Key Points Read the pdf. Executive Summary New and increasingly capable artificial intelligence applications are a fact of life. They offer great promise of advances in human welfare but also…
By Bronwyn Howell | October 31, 2024
Last month, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in TikTok Inc. v. Garland, which tests the constitutionality of a federal law that would ban the popular social…
By Daniel Lyons | October 25, 2024
Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, reignited the debate about how best to regulate the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence. Newsom’s veto illustrates a cautious approach to regulating…
By John Bailey | October 17, 2024