Do smartphones and social media use negatively impact adolescent mental health? Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, in his high-profile work The Anxious Generation, published last year, certainly thinks so. So do policymakers across…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 20, 2025
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…
By Clay Calvert | June 18, 2025
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…
By Will Rinehart | June 17, 2025
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…
By Daniel Lyons | June 13, 2025
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…
By Mark Jamison | June 12, 2025
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…
By Clay Calvert | June 11, 2025
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…
By Mark Jamison | June 9, 2025
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…
By Will Rinehart | June 6, 2025
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…
By Clay Calvert | June 5, 2025
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…
By James Pethokoukis | June 4, 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…
By John Bailey | June 4, 2025
Conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence runs in two directions—utopian and dystopian. On one hand, we’re told that AI will usher in explosive productivity, endless efficiency, and new industries we can’t…
By Mark Jamison | June 4, 2025
On Tuesday, technology writer Patience Haggin claimed that in the US, “rural internet is still so bad, some states are turning to outer space.” The article referred to the growing…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 30, 2025
Personalization, which tailors content based on user preference, has become widely used on virtually every social media platform. By providing users with relevant content that appeals to their unique interests,…
By Shane Tews | May 28, 2025
On the final day of my civil procedure course, Professor Brian Landsberg offered a piece of advice. At first blush, it seemingly had nothing to do with the myriad federal…
By Clay Calvert | May 27, 2025