I recently listened to Jacob Siegel’s interview on The Fifth Column podcast and couldn’t help but reflect on the power of stories. I now recognize, some six years later, that the Cambridge Analytica…
By Will Rinehart | May 28, 2024
Blockchain technology has revolutionized global finance, playing a crucial role in bypassing traditional intermediaries to facilitate humanitarian aid in conflict zones like Ukraine. This financial transformation paves the way for…
By Shane Tews | May 27, 2024
How much can we trust artificial intelligence (AI)? How much could AI transform an industry as stodgy as healthcare, where other technologies have failed time and time again? These questions…
By Brian J. Miller | Ted Cho | Robert D. Glatter | May 24, 2024
As forthcoming elections loom large, the question of artificial intelligence (AI) generated deepfakes disseminating misleading messages purportedly from or about political candidates has become pressing. As illustrated in a recently published academic study on the…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 24, 2024
Outdated systems, sloppy code, and years of quick fixes have created a growing issue of “technical debt” in businesses. This unseen threat poses security risks, slows innovation, and leaves companies…
By Shane Tews | May 23, 2024
The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, comprising Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) have released their long-anticipated Roadmap for…
By John Bailey | May 22, 2024
Safeguarding minors from harms ostensibly caused by allegedly addictive speech-based technologies: That’s the impetus stoking a nationwide wave of lawsuits and legislation that collectively seek to compensate minors for injuries…
By Clay Calvert | May 21, 2024
This month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began formally winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), thus ending a subsidy program that supported 23 million households in paying for internet…
By Will Rinehart | May 21, 2024
A recent Australian court battle between the country’s eSafety commissioner (overseeing Australia’s self-professed “world leading” Online Safety Act) and Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) reveals issues about internet content and free speech. Should the laws, interpretations and enforcement…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 20, 2024
When it comes to deploying a new technology, there are no guarantees. While developers and policymakers do their best to minimize risk, innovation always requires a leap of faith. The…
By James Pethokoukis | Bronwyn Howell | May 17, 2024
Another month, another copyright infringement suit filed against OpenAI. In addition to previous litigation brought against artificial intelligence firms by the New York Times Company, an alliance of prominent authors, and…
By Michael M. Rosen | May 17, 2024
As some nations move to clog up the internet with cross-border data impediments and forced data localization, the US remains on the sidelines, crippled by the Biden administration’s bow to the anti-global,…
By Claude Barfield | May 16, 2024
Two recent datasets from the Census help to illuminate what’s occurring in robotics and in artificial intelligence adoption. While they have their limitations, both the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES)…
By Will Rinehart | May 15, 2024
It is another day ending in “y” in the Beltway, and with it we have another “climate crisis” attack on the oil and gas companies — the very ones that…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 14, 2024
In an otherwise useful reminder of why the much-ballyhooed “transition” to unconventional energy won’t happen anytime soon—because the massive attendant costs can’t be borne by most of the world’s people…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 14, 2024