August 25, 2025
Does the CHIPS and Science Act Argue for Industrial Policy?
This paper is part of AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy’s (CTSE) Science, Industry, and the State Project Key Points Executive Summary In the past decade, two compelling changes have occurred that call for revisiting the old debate of open markets versus industrial policy: China’s increasing economic role and political aggressiveness and the growing…
August 11, 2025
Breaking Language Barriers Through Multilingual Domains
Domain names act as the backbone of the internet, but as millions of users worldwide use it, many non-Latin script languages face barriers to fully accessing the internet. While multilingual domain names are technically possible, limited support across systems and platforms has made true language inclusion an ongoing challenge—and a key issue for global digital…
July 31, 2025
Spectrum at a Crossroads
President Donald Trump recently signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law which, among other action items, restored the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to auction spectrum. Although this authority is now back in place, questions are bound to bubble to the surface—how is this vital resource managed, and by whom? With spectrum powering everyday…
July 29, 2025
America’s AI Action Plan: Analyzing the Strategy for Global Leadership
Event Summary On July 29, AEI hosted an event examining the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan and its implications for businesses, consumers, and national security. The panel, moderated by AEI’s John Bailey, began with initial reactions to the legislation before diving into its detailed provisions. AEI’s Will Rinehart analyzed impacts on data centers and AI…
July 25, 2025
How Does Semiconductor Trade Work?
Key Points How Does Semiconductor Trade Work? How is it that South Korea—one of the world’s most important makers of the chips critical for goods from cars to computers—imports more semiconductors from the United States than it exports? Semiconductor supply chains are immensely complex. Some of the trade dynamics, like America’s unexpected surplus in chip…
July 23, 2025
How the AI Era Is Changing the Way We Learn and Work
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms how we work, learn, and organize institutions, questions emerge about whether our current social structures can adopt AI and harness its full potential. From educational systems to workplaces struggling to integrate AI tools, the challenges lie in the structure. How do we redesign our approaches to teaching, learning, and…
July 23, 2025
Trump’s New AI Plan Is Necessary but Insufficient
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, At minimum, the Trump White House’s new AI Action Plan deserves credit for being honest about what it is: not a blueprint for technocratic governance or navigating a world of superintelligence, but rather a stab at geostrategic competitiveness policy designed to ensure American dominance in what could be the defining technology of our time….
July 21, 2025
Europe’s Grand Data Plan: Ambitious, Expansive, and Ill-Fated
The European Union is pursuing an ambitious digital policy project: create a unified data economy imbued with European values under European governance. Launched in 2020, the European Strategy for Data aims to build a “single European data space.” The integrated digital system would allow individuals, businesses, and governments to share vast troves of industrial, government, and personal…
July 16, 2025
Federal Data Consolidation: Protecting Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Event Summary On July 16, AEI’s Shane Tews introduced Palantir Technologies’ Courtney Bowman, the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Alexandra Reeve Givens, the IRS’s Daniel Werfel, and Election Security & Innovation Consulting’s Kim Wyman. Ms. Tews emphasized the critical importance of addressing cyber threats related to data access, use, and control. The discussion began by…
July 9, 2025
Free Speech and Tech Policy at the US Supreme Court, 2025
Event Summary On July 9, AEI hosted an expert panel examining the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, along with broader issues related to online expression, regulatory authority, and technology policy. AEI’s Clay Calvert opened the discussion by outlining the facts of Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, summarizing the majority opinion, and explaining how…