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January 31, 2025
Satellite Broadband Connectivity: Many Pros, but Also a Few Cons
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 cost-effective broadband services to a wider range of remote communities and locations worldwide than has been possible with legacy geostationary satellites. SpaceX plans to launch…
January 30, 2025
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 material. The case offers the Court the opportunity to revisit two cases decided at the dawn of the Internet Age finding such requirements violated the…
January 24, 2025
Why Meta’s Change in Fact-Checking Is Good for Democracy
If there was ever any doubt that US politics has conditioned the content carried by social media delivered worldwide, it was erased on January 7 when Meta announced it was scrapping its fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in favor of a community notes system similar to that used on the platform X. In a video…
January 22, 2025
America Can’t Afford to Lose the High-Skilled Talent Race in Today’s Competitive Markets
A recent social media clash that erupted between Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump loyalists over high-skilled immigration reform exposed deep ideological rifts within the Republican coalition. But the importance of the debate over immigration policy and the American education system extends far beyond social media — solving these problems is critical to America’s competitiveness. By combining pragmatic immigration reforms,…
January 13, 2025
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 on the law of eavesdropping. Historically, there was fairly robust law on listening in. Given new technological forms of secret overhearing, that law may have…
January 3, 2025
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 unfathomably complex human activities to deliver innovation and prosperity. They can also shift suddenly, creating winners and losers, even as broad measures of economic health…
December 30, 2024
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 that had been available for many years at a much lower cost. Confronted with the public outcry, the FDA took an unusual step: It allowed…
December 30, 2024
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 team’s year in review. The remarkable advancement of AI over the past year has catalyzed unprecedented innovation and strategic planning that will change the skills…
December 23, 2024
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 frontier, Brave New Words reads much like the field notes of an explorer documenting his experiences and trying to make sense of what they mean for teaching…
December 23, 2024
What Comes Next in the Information Wars?
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 cohesion. Dr. Rosen moderated the first panel, which featured the Data & Society Institute’s Alice E. Marwick and Jon Askonas of the Catholic University of…