When artificial intelligence chatbot characters communicate with you through words––when they respond with comments, answers, and questions to your input––are they engaging in “speech” within the meaning of the First…
By Clay Calvert | June 24, 2025
Spectrum sharing rules between geostationary (GSO) and non-geostationary (NGSO) satellites have remained largely unchanged for decades, despite major advances in satellite technology and deployment. Safeguards like equivalent power-flux density (EPFD)…
By Shane Tews | June 23, 2025
Two snapshots, one static institution In 1915, Kansas City Power & Light convinced regulators that stringing copper wires across the prairie would bring “abundant, cheap light for every home”. Today,…
By Lynne Kiesling | June 20, 2025
In the continuous evolution of wireless technology and telecommunications, few issues carry as much strategic importance as the allocation of spectrum. The recent announcement by the Senate Commerce Committee, regarding…
By Shane Tews | June 20, 2025
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
You’d be hard pressed to find a more fascinating straight line. The figure below is one of the most amazing graphs in all of climate policy.1 It shows the decarbonization of the U.S.…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 16, 2025
The title of today’s post comes from an excellent recent talk in London given by my AEI colleague (and University of Pennsylvania professor), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde. Today I look at the simple math…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 16, 2025
The Biden administration’s antitrust agenda was often defined by overreach, weak legal footing, and politicized attacks on successful American companies. Now, in the early days of President Trump’s second term,…
By Mark Jamison | June 13, 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
Space-based satellite networks are transforming global connectivity, extending access to even the most remote corners of the planet. The rules that govern these networks have never been more critical. How…
By Shane Tews | June 12, 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
In an op-ed yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that he was sacking all of its members…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 11, 2025
The goal of New York State’s Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act—protecting people from AI harms—is admirable. But by assuming that AI models themselves are the key leverage point for…
By Will Rinehart | June 11, 2025