Europe’s Grand Data Plan: Ambitious, Expansive, and Ill-Fated
Blog Post
AEIdeas

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…

Federal Data Consolidation: Protecting Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Event

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 &…

Free Speech and Tech Policy at the US Supreme Court, 2025
Event

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,…

A Practical Path for the Tech Exit: A Book Event with Clare Morell
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A Practical Path for the Tech Exit: A Book Event with Clare Morell

Event Summary On July 9, Ethics & Public Policy Center Fellow and Technology and Human Flourishing Project Director Clare Morell joined AEI’s Timothy P. Carney to discuss her new book, The…

The Open App Markets Act: How “Competition” Reform Would Open America’s Digital Doors to Hackers and Foreign Adversaries
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AEIdeas

The Open App Markets Act: How “Competition” Reform Would Open America’s Digital Doors to Hackers and Foreign Adversaries

The Open App Markets Act (OAMA) has reemerged in Congress with renewed momentum, aiming to break up what some lawmakers perceive as monopolistic control over mobile app distribution. Supporters frame this legislation…

A Note on Roger Pielke Jr. and Extreme Greenhouse Gas Scenarios
Article
AEIdeas

A Note on Roger Pielke Jr. and Extreme Greenhouse Gas Scenarios

My AEI colleague Roger Pielke Jr. posted some useful observations recently on the politicized use of extreme greenhouse gas (GHG) scenarios for purposes of the usual climate scaremongering and support of policies…

Expect an AI Shock to Change the Job Market, Not Destroy It
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AEIdeas

Expect an AI Shock to Change the Job Market, Not Destroy It

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “The Real Story of the ‘China Shock‘,” economists James J. Heckman (a Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago) and Hanming Fang (University of…

A Bitter Pill to Swallow: American Drug Shortages
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RealClearHealth

A Bitter Pill to Swallow: American Drug Shortages

While drug pricing has been a consistent focus for policymakers concerned about access to medicine, another significant barrier to care has grown: drug shortages. Drug shortages have become more prevalent,…

Human Ambition and Natural Beauty Meet in the City
Article
The Dispatch

Human Ambition and Natural Beauty Meet in the City

A couple of weeks ago, the climate writer Robinson Meyer posted something that’s been on my mind. It gets at something fundamental about the infrastructure of American cities. This is a trite…

A World with Smart AI but Not Human-Level AI
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AEIdeas

A World with Smart AI but Not Human-Level AI

How long, if ever, before we achieve artificial intelligence that can pretty much do everything that a human worker can do currently? My short-hand way of gauging the speculative timeline…

What Would a US Tariff on Chips Look Like?
Op-Ed
Financial Times

What Would a US Tariff on Chips Look Like?

The US government will be “taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN”, President Donald Trump recently declared. Given his repeated promises to impose a tariff on…

Silicon Valley’s Consumer Eugenics
Op-Ed
Commentary

Silicon Valley’s Consumer Eugenics

The orchid was once an expensive, highly cultivated symbol of refinement; now, cheaper cultivars can be found in almost any grocery store. Perhaps that makes it a fitting image for…

The Nuclear Race to Power the AI Economy
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AEIdeas

The Nuclear Race to Power the AI Economy

America’s nuclear paradox: Yesterday’s reactors are being resurrected to power the future. For example: At Palisades, Michigan, engineers rush to repair steam generators before an October 2025 restart, while at…

Making DOGE Constitutional
Op-Ed
Civitas

Making DOGE Constitutional

The “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been hard to pin down. In the wake of last year’s election, Elon Musk and his erstwhile partner, Vivek Ramaswamy, gestured toward some…

The Strange New Politics of Science
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Issues in Science and Technology

The Strange New Politics of Science

Amid the familiar lines of political division in America—immigration, abortion, taxes, regulation, and the like—a new divide has emerged over trust in science. Concerns about the politicization of science and…