What a difference a week makes. As others and I have predicted, newly-inaugurated President Trump rolled back much of his predecessor’s policy approach to artificial intelligence (AI). But few forecasted…
By Michael M. Rosen | January 24, 2024
Spanning everything from smartphones, more efficient appliances, larger (and thinner) televisions, and new designs in wearables for health and fitness, the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) showcases a vast range of…
By Shane Tews | January 23, 2024
In my latest blog post, I illustrated that the increased privacy rationale used by the majority of the commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission to support the reclassification of broadband internet…
By Bronwyn Howell | January 22, 2024
The highlight for me of David Graeber’s 2015 book, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, is his trenchant critique of the post office, which…
By Jim Harper | January 19, 2024
The latest dispute between the New York Times and OpenAI reinforces the distinction in understanding artificial intelligence (AI) between autonomy and automatons, which we have previously examined. The Gray Lady turned heads late…
By Michael M. Rosen | January 18, 2024
Since early December, the end of my 20-year career teaching at Harvard has been the subject of articles, op-eds, tweets from a billionaire, and even a congressional hearing. I have become a poster child…
By Carole Hooven | January 17, 2024
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” This timeless wisdom was articulated by Edmund Burke, a famous philosopher, member of the House of Commons…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 17, 2024
On January 17, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to report on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet. If it proceeds, broadband internet access…
By Bronwyn Howell | January 17, 2024
Chief Justice John Roberts’s annual year-end reports often examine timely issues facing the federal judiciary, connecting them with historical analogs. For instance, his 2022 report addressed escalating threats of violence directed at jurists––most prominently, one targeting…
By Clay Calvert | January 16, 2024
“What about the kids?” plays an outsized role in the short history of Internet law. From the Communications Decency Act to the Child Online Protection Act, California’s violent video game…
By Daniel Lyons | January 11, 2024
This two-part series examines the arguments in Murthy v. Missouri that Solicitor General Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar made on behalf of the federal government in her brief with the US Supreme Court. The first post provided background on Murthy (formerly Missouri v. Biden)…
By Clay Calvert | January 10, 2024
Key Points Read the PDF. Congress created the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, a prominent feature of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA),1 to usher areas without…
By Mark Jamison | January 9, 2024
On October 24, 2023, AEI hosted a panel to discuss a case facing Meta’s Oversight Board, which concerns an altered video posted by a Facebook user of President Joe Biden. The video…
By Shane Tews | January 9, 2024
The US Supreme Court crept closer last month to resolving the jawboning case of Murthy v. Missouri when Solicitor General Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar filed her opening brief in this politically divisive battle over free speech and informal government censorship. She explained why…
By Clay Calvert | January 8, 2024
William McKinley won the presidency under the banner of the “Full Diner Pail” for workers allegedly underpinned by protection and high tariffs. Louis Brandeis, by contrast, was a free trader…
By Claude Barfield | January 5, 2024