The US Department of Education Just Finalized Its AI in Education Priority. Here’s What It Means.
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AEIdeas

The US Department of Education Just Finalized Its AI in Education Priority. Here’s What It Means.

The Department of Education has outlined thoughtful priorities. But the technology is evolving faster than any priority document can keep up with, and school leaders are already wrestling with it…

Outdated Prison Infrastructure Presents Unique Opportunity for BEAD Non-Deployment Funds
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AEIdeas

Outdated Prison Infrastructure Presents Unique Opportunity for BEAD Non-Deployment Funds

If NTIA is looking for high-impact uses of its unexpected surplus, modernizing prison communications infrastructure is an opportunity worth serious consideration.

A Landmark Tech Ruling and What Lies Ahead
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The American Enterprise

A Landmark Tech Ruling and What Lies Ahead

Why the Verdict in Los Angeles on Social Media Addiction May Not Spell Doom for Meta and Google

EU’s Social Media Age-Gating Still Avoids User Accountability
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AEIdeas

EU’s Social Media Age-Gating Still Avoids User Accountability

The problem with the EU and Australian approaches to age-gating is that regulatory responsibility is being shifted onto platform operators. Perhaps it’s time to consider the role of human accountabilities,…

Trust and Safety in a Fragmented Digital World (with David Sullivan and Farzaneh Badiei)
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Trust and Safety in a Fragmented Digital World (with David Sullivan and Farzaneh Badiei)

Information technology and digital services are a rapidly changing sector operating in an increasingly complex regulatory environment. International bodies have struggled to fast-track standards for the digital services industry, and…

How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Work for Americans with Disabilities
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AEIdeas

How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Work for Americans with Disabilities

When AI complements human abilities—particularly by addressing specific barriers—it can unlock human potential.

A violent reaction to AI is bubbling. But this isn’t the Luddites’ era.
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The Washington Post

A violent reaction to AI is bubbling. But this isn’t the Luddites’ era.

A dark form of anti-technology politics is beginning to take shape. This month, a molotov cocktail was thrown at the San Francisco home of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. The suspect fled…

Parents or States: Who Should Decide How Much Social Media Time is Too Much?
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AEIdeas

Parents or States: Who Should Decide How Much Social Media Time is Too Much?

A federal judge’s February ruling blocking Virginia’s enforcement of a statute that imposes a one-hour-per-day default limit for minors using a social media platform correctly puts parents––not the government––back in…

The Lithography Loophole: How China Is Printing Its Way to Chip Self-Sufficiency
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The American Enterprise Institute

The Lithography Loophole: How China Is Printing Its Way to Chip Self-Sufficiency

China’s fleet of several hundred deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines will almost certainly be capable of printing millions of high-end logic dies in 2026, which Huawei will package into high-end…

AI Competition with China Continues to Heat Up
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AEIdeas

AI Competition with China Continues to Heat Up

As major artificial intelligence breakthroughs arrive on what seems to be a near-weekly basis, the race between the US and China continues to intensify. In this post and the next,…

The Paper That Breaks Climate Economics
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The Honest Broker

The Paper That Breaks Climate Economics

Part 1 of 2 on a damning new paper that takes on the top-down climate-economics literature — “The empirically inscrutable climate-economy relationship”

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Is a Warning: Technical Debt Is Now a National Security Risk
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AEIdeas

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Is a Warning: Technical Debt Is Now a National Security Risk

Anthropic’s launch of Project Glasswing should be understood less as a product announcement and more as a policy warning.

Tornado Damage and Frequency: An Update Through 2025
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The Honest Broker

Tornado Damage and Frequency: An Update Through 2025

Today, I share the latest data on normalized U.S. tornado losses since 1954 and a time series of the incidence of the strongest tornadoes since 1975. I doubt you’ll come…

Is “Safety by Design” Ever Feasible in an Uncertain World?
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AEIdeas

Is “Safety by Design” Ever Feasible in an Uncertain World?

Safety by Design is anchored in a world of engineering certainty that defies the complex realities of outcomes coproduced by platforms and their users. Just as with playgrounds, the burden…

Can Cryptocurrency Go Mainstream?
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AEIdeas

Can Cryptocurrency Go Mainstream?

Shane is joined by Marc Boiron and Nicoletta Kolpakov to discuss the road to widespread adoption of cryptocurrency.