Those who look forward to Apple (yet again) redefining the technological horizon, like it did with the iPhone, may need to temper their expectations. The US Department of Justice (DOJ)…
By Mark Jamison | April 19, 2024
As the country races into its digital transformation, the expansion of broadband across the United States has become a pivotal undertaking. There are numerous state and federal efforts, fueled largely by over $70…
By Mark Jamison | April 19, 2024
During the tumultuous cancel-culture summer of 2020, police officer George Forbush publicly vented his anger about the beating a person suffered at a Black Lives Matter (BLM) march. After watching video of the…
By Clay Calvert | April 16, 2024
Toward the end of this month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold a vote to reinstate a set of rules for internet providers. Consisting of 434 pages and resembling a 2015…
By Will Rinehart | April 16, 2024
Little more than two years from the last significant attempt to modernize our national privacy law in the failed American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), US House Committee on Energy and…
By John Bailey | April 15, 2024
On April 25, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote to reinstate net neutrality rules and reclassify broadband providers as Title II common carriers. Since the agency signaled its intentions…
By Daniel Lyons | April 12, 2024
While internet access has spread rapidly across the globe during the past several decades, around three billion people still lack access. Some argue that the solution lies in fiber cable…
By Shane Tews | April 11, 2024
Center for Technology, Science, and Energy AEI, Auditorium1789 Massachusetts Avenue NWWashington, DC 20036 Contact Information Event: Owen O’Brien-Powers | Owen.O’Brien-Powers@aei.org | 503.449.4641Media: MediaServices@aei.org | 202.862.5829 Event Summary On April 11, AEI’s Jim Harper was joined by…
By Jim Harper | April 11, 2024
As all good policy practitioners know, all regulatory activities are constrained by the agency problem: Those who are being regulated know far more of what is going on than those…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 11, 2024
When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill last month banning anyone “younger than 14 years of age” from holding accounts with certain social media platforms, it garnered coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Washington…
By Clay Calvert | April 8, 2024
Rumor has it the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) could make a comeback in Congress. Its supporters posit that large tech companies, such as Apple and Alphabet, are throttling competition and…
By Mark Jamison | April 4, 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the dialogue often veers between the extremes of stringent regulation, like the European Union’s AI Act, and laissez-faire approaches that risk…
By John Bailey | April 2, 2024
My AEI colleague Mark Jamison recently asserted that “traditional news journalists are toast” because the “cost of authoring written content” has plunged in just two years from “around $100 per 1000 words” to only…
By Clay Calvert | April 1, 2024
“There are no solutions,” the celebrated economist Thomas Sowell once wrote, “only trade-offs.” Nowhere is this wise maxim truer these days than in the realm of green energy, where the headlong…
By Michael M. Rosen | March 28, 2024
A year ago today, the Future of Life Institute released a letter calling for a 6-month pause in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) systems more powerful than GPT-4. The signers included…
By Will Rinehart | March 22, 2024