In the world of tech and tax complications, the recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling ordering Apple to pay a whopping €13 billion ($14 billion) in back taxes to…
By Shane Tews | September 17, 2024
My AEI colleague Roger Pielke Jr. argues in a recent post that “Joe Biden Is the ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ President,” by virtue of the time trend for U.S. oil production…
By Benjamin Zycher | September 16, 2024
It is never wise to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But that is the perverse prospect we now face because of the striking failure of many college and university officials…
By Benjamin Zycher | September 16, 2024
Political scientist Francis Fukuyama is right, at least about one thing. The American political system is a vetocracy, a system ruled by vetoes. And in recent decades, this excessive power…
By Will Rinehart | September 16, 2024
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is one of the most profitable and valuable firms globally, and one of the most admired. That admiration, however, does not extend to government regulators. Google is currently facing over 100 investigations worldwide,…
By Mark Jamison | September 13, 2024
In the U.S. presidential debate earlier this week, the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris offered a strong endorsement of not just the technology of fracking but also of fossil fuels: I was the…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | September 13, 2024
California officials took a public relations victory lap month upon reaching an agreement with Google under which a combination of state taxpayer dollars and financial contributions from the technology giant will finance a “News…
By Clay Calvert | September 12, 2024
America’s digital leadership is on the ballot this fall. One option, offered by the Republican platform, is to embrace the consumer-oriented and business-led economic policies that made the US the…
By Mark Jamison | September 11, 2024
By Christine Rosen | M. Anthony Mills | September 11, 2024
An emerging body of research suggests that large language models (LLMs) can “deceive” humans by offering fabricated explanations for their behavior or concealing the truth of their actions from human users.…
By John Bailey | September 10, 2024
Event Summary On September 10, AEI’s Shane Tews moderated a panel exploring the legal implications of government involvement in free speech. Following a showing of the Federalist Society’s short film…
By Shane Tews | Clay Calvert | September 10, 2024
Key Points Read the pdf. The precautionary principle (PP) holds that in the face of scientific uncertainty about the outcomes of deploying a new technology, and especially when serious or…
By Bronwyn Howell | September 10, 2024
Last week, the California State Assembly passed SB 1047, a controversial AI safety bill that supporters contend would regulate advanced AI models to reduce the possibility of AI going haywire and…
By Will Rinehart | September 9, 2024
Is the new United Kingdom’s government leadership stepping back from the country’s recently acquired position as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) safety regulation? Announcements this past week show a shift in priorities…
By Shane Tews | September 6, 2024
Among those who believe that technological change has stagnated, there are two broad categories. One social/institutional theory of stagnation, often associated with Peter Thiel, claims that the world has entered…
By Lynne Kiesling | September 6, 2024