March 13, 2025
Trump vs. The Press
It’s time to push back against Donald Trump’s efforts to target, silence, and punish—via lawsuits, access restrictions, and exertions of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulatory authority—press entities that oppose and supposedly harm him or that fail to embrace his narratives. Trump’s attacks on journalism proliferate precisely when he demonstrates what AEI’s Jack Landman Goldsmith recently called “indifference…
March 13, 2025
The Spectrum Exchange: Networks, Security, and Innovation (with Peter Rysavy)
Amid debates over spectrum allocation, critical questions about national security, communication infrastructure, and connectivity continue to take center stage. What does spectrum sharing involve? How does spectrum sharing enhance the efficiency of limited spectrum resources? And what impact does it have on deploying emerging technologies like 5G and AI-driven networks? In this episode, Shane Tews…
March 12, 2025
WEIRD Reactions to Privacy Regulation
In my last blog, I discussed the effects of WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) psychology on attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence (AI). WEIRD societies have been shown to demonstrate very different approaches to trust than non-WEIRD societies. WEIRD societies have substituted trust in friends, families, and communities with trust in institutions that have enabled widespread trading with strangers….
March 12, 2025
Look Who’s Jawboning Now: The FCC
When attorney Robert Corn-Revere vents his views about issues affecting the First Amendment’s guarantees of free speech and press, it’s wise to attend. Currently chief counsel for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and a former partner at two leading law firms, Corn-Revere served as chief counsel for the late James Quello when he was chairman, a renowned…
March 7, 2025
WEIRD Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence—And Its Regulation?
The pioneering work of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, alongside behavioral economists Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein and practitioners such as Lord Mervyn King, leaves little doubt that individuals—when making decisions in the face of uncertainty—act a little weirdly. Specifically, they exhibit a host of cognitive biases that lead to poor decisions. These biases include: Subsequently, work by Joseph Henrich and others has shown that, while…
March 6, 2025
Rebuilding the Transatlantic Tech Alliance: Why Innovation, Not Regulation, Should Guide the Way
As artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and digital infrastructure reshape global power dynamics, the relationship between the United States and the European Union stands at a critical crossroads. Yet the EU’s pride in being the world’s leading digital regulator introduces significant challenges for transatlantic cooperation and hurts European consumers. While the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),…
March 4, 2025
Why AI Struggles with Basic Math (and How That’s Changing)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) demonstrating remarkable capabilities in language generation, translation, and reasoning. Yet, LLMs often stumble over basic math problems, posing a problem for their use in settings—including education—where math is essential. However, these limitations are being addressed through improvements in the models themselves along…
March 4, 2025
Internet Expression: Yesteryear’s Supreme Court Rhetoric Meets Roberts’s Reality Check
Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2024 year-end report about the federal judiciary garnered significant mainstream news attention because of its focus on threats to both judicial independence and individual jurists. A Wall Street Journal headline crisply captured the thrust of Roberts’ sentiments: “Chief Justice Says Intimidation and Violence Threaten Judicial Independence.” To wit, former President George W. Bush’s high-court nominee wrote that while “criticism comes…
February 28, 2025
WEIRD? Institutions and Consumers’ Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in 31 Countries
A survey of perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in 31 countries in 2023 yields significantly less positive perceptions of the new technology in developed western economies than in emerging and non-western economies. This could reflect citizens in non-Western countries perceiving machines (computers) and algorithms differently from those in Western countries, or that a more positive outlook…
February 28, 2025
Connecting the Dots on the Chips
Recent posts by fellow AEI scholars Klon Kitchen and Claude Barfield separately highlighted two important issues that must be considered together if the United States is to truly benefit from—and lead—the inevitable revolution driven by artificial intelligence technologies. Klon Kitchen articulately laid out the argument that the Trump Administration vision for AI as a pillar of…