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April 3, 2024
The House TikTok Ban Is an Empty Threat
Last month, the House of Representatives proudly voted to ban TikTok unless its corporate parent sells the app within six months. But proponents eager to strike a blow against the Chinese government might not celebrate just yet. There are three main problems with the proposed TikTok ban: it’s probably unconstitutional, it’s practically unenforceable, and, even if it…
April 2, 2024
An AI Healthcare Coalition Suggests a Better Way of Regulating AI
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 unbridled technological advances without sufficient safeguards. Amidst this polarized debate, the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has emerged as a promising alternative approach that addresses the ethical,…
April 2, 2024
The Re-Emergence of Huawei?
Despite draconian export controls and blacklisting by the United States, the Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei, is alive and well—at least for now. Huawei’s current relatively strong competitive state comes from a variety of sources: Yes, Chinese government subsidies and huge home markets helped greatly, but there are also other factors such as Huawei’s own resilience and forward…
April 2, 2024
Why DOJ’s Antitrust Against Apple Could Fall Flat
Last week marked the beginning of another significant legal battle in the tech world, as the Department of Justice (DOJ)—along with 15 states and the District of Columbia—filed an antitrust case against Apple. The core of the lawsuit, formally known as United States v. Apple, claims the company has abused its market position to the detriment of…
April 1, 2024
Journalism and Generative AI: Exploring Limitations and Apprehensions Within the News Industry
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 four cents. That’s due to “advanced large language models such as ChatGPT and Claud 2 [that] have revolutionized content creation, driving costs down by a…
March 28, 2024
“Away for the Day”: Regulating Cell Phone Use in New Zealand Schools
On March 26, New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, well-known for The Coddling of the American Mind, released a new book, The Anxious Generation, where he attributes the transition from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood as being responsible for the “epidemic” of Generation Z young people suffering from anxiety, depression and fragility. Haidt claims that “a great…
March 28, 2024
The Quest for a ‘Clean Economy’ Collides with Reality
“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 quest for a carbon-free economy has collided with other cultural, social, and environmental forces. Want to extract lithium, a critical component of the batteries that…
March 26, 2024
Tony Mills on the Failures of Experts During COVID
Tony Mills joins Robert to talk about what policymakers and scientific experts got right and wrong throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss school closures, lockdowns, masks, and vaccines. Tony highlights the loss of trust in experts and how the relationship between science, the media, and politics needs to change. Tony Mills is the Director of…
March 22, 2024
Why Do Men Dominate Chess?
For years now, sports experts and culture warriors alike have been fiercely contesting the issue of whether transwomen (males who live and identify as women) should be eligible to compete in the female categories of numerous sports—including rugby, swimming, weightlifting, and disc golf. But last August, this debate entered an unexpected domain: the game of…
March 22, 2024
Would It Even Be Constitutional to Pause AI?
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 Elon Musk and Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak, alongside tech critics like Tristan Harris, who all agreed that AI labs must “immediately pause for at least…