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June 28, 2024
Securing the Web with Route Origin Authorizations
As part of the initiative to bolster cybersecurity defenses, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is championing the widespread adoption of Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs), a security mechanism to prevent cyber-attacks on the internet’s routing system. ROAs prevent unauthorized parties from hijacking IP prefixes or re-routing legitimate network traffic to malicious destinations. On June…
June 27, 2024
AI Regulation Increases Certainty—but for Whom?
Benjamin Franklin’s reputed last great quote, in his November 1789 letter to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, opined: Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable, but in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. One of these certainties pertains to the realities of the physical world; the…
June 26, 2024
Challenging China’s Electric Vehicle Export Surge: US and Europe Diverge
China’s move to dominate the world electric vehicle (EV) market poses major challenges to the world trading system and, the US argues, to national security. While the policy responses are still unfolding, two models are emerging: a European response of economic retaliation mixed with offset accommodation and a US hardline reaction underpinned by both economic and security…
June 26, 2024
That’s AllotA Energy!
Later this week on Colorado’s beautiful Western Slope, I’ll be giving a keynote talk at an energy transition conference. The timing is perfect because I get to share some of my first analyses of the 2024 edition of the Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy — an absolutely indispensable resource that was just released a few…
June 25, 2024
The Constitutional Problems with Social Media Warning Labels
Last week, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthycalled for a “warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.” He contends it “would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe.” While Murthy’s desire to help minors and parents undoubtedly is sincere,…
June 24, 2024
The Lurking Dangers in State-Level AI Regulation
An ordinary bill signing became extraordinary last month when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis used the occasion to deliver a detailed critique of the bill he was signing, Senate Bill 24-205. The bill is one of the first pieces of legislation that regulates cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Still, Polis isn’t totally convinced that it’s ready for prime time:…
June 23, 2024
AI Regulation, Preemption, and Democracy
Sometimes a hearing about transparency ends up being about free speech. A recent meeting of the House’s bipartisan task force on artificial intelligence ended up being about democracy, for me. In tech and in general, I believe our country needs to slow or stop the aggrandizement of federal power that is eating away at our wonderful…
June 21, 2024
Overregulation Threatens the Digital Economy
America has a vibrant history of innovation and entrepreneurship. This heritage laid the foundation for today’s bustling e-marketplace and its unparalleled successes. Ninety-five percent of Americans participate, creating over 10 percent of US gross domestic product. Nearly three-fourths of small businesses credit ecommerce for their survival through the pandemic. Fifty-three percent reported in 2023 that most of their sales growth…
June 20, 2024
Data Center Electricity Use I: Framing the Problem
Yesterday the silicon chip platform company Nvidia became the most valuable public company in the US, surpassing Microsoft: Nvidia became the U.S.’s most valuable listed company Tuesday thanks to the demand for its artificial-intelligence chips, leading a tech boom that brings back memories from around the start of this century. Nvidia’s chips have been the workhorses of…
June 20, 2024
The Death of Environmentalism at 20
Twenty years ago, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus “dropped” (in Ted’s words) an essay at the annual meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association titled, The Death of Environmentalism (DoE). The DoE prompted a vigorous debate about environmentalism in the United States that continues today. Here is how the New York Times characterized the reaction to the essay in 2005: The…