The decades-long push for expansion of “renewable” electricity generation—wind and solar power in particular—always has been driven by a combination of religious fervor and the rent- and vote-seeking cynicism of…
By Benjamin Zycher | March 6, 2024
As we discussed in January, the New York Times Company surprised many with the late December copyright infringement lawsuit it filed against OpenAI. Now the artificial intelligence (AI) giant has struck back, filing a motion…
By Michael M. Rosen | March 6, 2024
Automatic stabilizers are government mechanisms, like unemployment insurance and progressive taxes, that help to stabilize the economy without needing direction from Congress. In a similar way, there are a range…
By Will Rinehart | March 5, 2024
Abstract The United States now has a landmark climate and clean energy law: the Inflation Reduction Act. The Act may provide more than a trillion dollars in spending on new…
By James W. Coleman | March 1, 2024
The political background and substantive implications of the recent US reversal on market-opening digital trade policies are now emerging with greater clarity. And what a tangled web has unfolded, with…
By Claude Barfield | March 1, 2024
We’ve come a long way since the days of Harry Truman. In the modern Beltway, policymakers strive mightily to see to it that the buck stops somewhere else. Presidents blame Congress for…
By Benjamin Zycher | February 29, 2024
Have you ever begun a major project, gotten deeply into it, and then realized you might not know enough about it––might not understand some key information and details––to successfully complete…
By Clay Calvert | February 29, 2024
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an ambitious attempt to constrain the immense power of Big Tech. But in an interconnected world, regulations made in Europe ripple out…
By Shane Tews | February 29, 2024
Don’t mess with people’s stuff. It’s a casual expression of common sense that also reflects foundational property law. Secure property rights give people independence. Real property law makes our homes…
By Jim Harper | February 27, 2024
South Korea is the latest in a string of nations to prohibit Deepseek’s groundbreakingchatbot from operating, joining Australia, the Republic of China on Taiwan, Italy, and manyothers, including America, that…
By Michael M. Rosen | February 27, 2024
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently updated its taxonomy of “critical and emerging technologies,” emphasizing the US government’s increased focus on data privacy and cybersecurity. This move,…
By Shane Tews | February 26, 2024
Event Summary On February 21, AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy hosted an event on the science and governance of risky pathogen research. M. Anthony Mills of AEI introduced…
By M. Anthony Mills | February 24, 2024
Once Democrats finally secured a 3-2 majority in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last fall, the agency lost no time in approving a long-anticipated proposal to reintroduce net neutrality by…
By Daniel Lyons | February 23, 2024
With the US Supreme Court preparing for March arguments in the contentious jawboning case of Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), the plaintiffs––Missouri, Louisiana, and five individuals censored on social media platforms––filed their high-court brief this month. Murthy hinges on whether censorship by…
By Clay Calvert | February 21, 2024
The algorithms know and love me, so LinkedIn pointed me the other day to a webinar cum gripe session put on by George Washington University Law Professor Daniel Solove and Cornell University Law Professor…
By Jim Harper | February 20, 2024