February 6, 2024
Indigenous Spectrum Ownership Can’t Address Digital Disadvantage
In New Zealand, February 6 is Waitangi Day, the local equivalent of the United States’ Fourth of July. On this day in 1840, Captain William Hobson the Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales and the chiefs of a large number of the indigenous Māori tribes signed the Treaty of Waitangi. In exchange for the chiefs ceding some powers to the…
February 5, 2024
Navigating the Post–World Radiocommunication Conference
On January 22, AEI hosted an expert panel on the US’s stance on spectrum and telecommunications policy following the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC). The event started with a conversation between AEI’s Shane Tews and Steve Lang of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy followed by an expert panel featuring the US House of Representatives’…
February 1, 2024
Reconsidering Chevron Deference: Implications for Tech Policy
The Supreme Court is poised to reconsider a fundamental principle of administrative law. The “Chevron Doctrine” requires the court to defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, rather than resolving the ambiguity itself. Chevron is one of the most-cited cases in legal history, and revising its approach to statutory construction could significantly impact how agencies regulate society. This…
January 31, 2024
CHIPS 1, CHIPS 2 . . . CHIPS X
Semiconductor titans are angling to feast on new public subsidies even before they have digested the first tranche. Two weeks ago in Davos, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, in effect, made a strong call for a CHIPS 2, referring to the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act passed by Congress in August 2022. Not to be outdone, OpenAI’s…
January 29, 2024
Letter to the Editor: Stuck With Biden, I’m Still a Never Trumper
Mr. Verret argues that Never Trumpers should vote for Mr. Trump because Mr. Trump “is the only alternative to” Mr. Biden’s leftist policies. Most of Mr. Biden’s policies have been pursued through administrative fiat, and thus can be reversed. So Mr. Verret is answering the wrong question. The correct one: What are the medium-term implications…
January 26, 2024
Beyond Bitcoin: Unlocking Blockchain’s Potential
Blockchain technology has the potential to transform financial services, supply chains, and efficiency. Yet as innovators like Digital Assets seek to modernize infrastructure across industries, questions emerge around balancing efficiency, privacy, and regulatory needs in complex blockchain applications. To unpack some of these key questions around blockchain, privacy, and regulation, I spoke with Yuval Rooz. Rooz…
January 25, 2024
The Looming Biden Climate Test for Natural-Gas Exports
Should you doubt the magnitude of the Biden administration’s ideological crusade against fossil fuels, merely consider the recent reports that the Department of Energy is considering the addition of a “climate test” criterion for approval of export facilities for liquefied natural gas (LNG). This would be in addition to the politicized “public interest” analysis to which such proposals have been…
January 24, 2024
A Vision for Tech Policy is Missing from GOP Economic Plans
In the current landscape of Republican presidential candidate priorities, there is a noticeable lack of emphasis on technology policy—a crucial area that demands attention. A substantial portion of registered voters, spanning all races and including those under 30, cite the economy as their primary concern. This concern intensifies in key swing states, with 39 percent highlighting the economy as their top issue….
January 24, 2024
Trump’s Big, Bold AI Gamble
What a difference a week makes. As others and I have predicted, newly-inaugurated President Trump rolled back much of his predecessor’s policy approach to artificial intelligence (AI). But few forecasted just how stark the contrast has been. Last week, before the inauguration, I argued that Trump should reverse outgoing President Biden’s ill-considered Executive Order on AI. As…
January 23, 2024
Sustainability Highlighted at Consumer Electronics Show 2024
Spanning everything from smartphones, more efficient appliances, larger (and thinner) televisions, and new designs in wearables for health and fitness, the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) showcases a vast range of products and technologies in Las Vegas every January to preview the innovations heading into homes and businesses in the coming year. Whether crafted for entertainment,…