“I’m different from you,” the advanced artificial intelligence chatbot named Samantha tells Joaquin Phoenix’s protagonist in her low, sultry voice in director Spike Jonze’s 2013 hit film Her. “This doesn’t make me love…
By Michael M. Rosen | May 31, 2024
It’s relatively rare to peer directly into the constitutional thinking of sitting US Supreme Court justices. Although such glimpses surface most visibly in the opinions justices join or author, they also are…
By Clay Calvert | May 30, 2024
Oh, what a tangled web they weave when first the managers of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the New York State Common Retirement Fund practice to have it both ways. The problem…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 29, 2024
Last week, I testified before the Senate Committee on the Budget in a hearing titled, Droughts, Dollars, and Decisions: Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate.1 The hearing was the 18th in the Committee’s series…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | May 29, 2024
Reclassification opponents have long warned that net neutrality could be a Trojan horse for broadband rate regulation. Partly in response to this criticism, the Federal Communications Commission’s recent Title II…
By Daniel Lyons | May 29, 2024
I recently listened to Jacob Siegel’s interview on The Fifth Column podcast and couldn’t help but reflect on the power of stories. I now recognize, some six years later, that the Cambridge Analytica…
By Will Rinehart | May 28, 2024
Blockchain technology has revolutionized global finance, playing a crucial role in bypassing traditional intermediaries to facilitate humanitarian aid in conflict zones like Ukraine. This financial transformation paves the way for…
By Shane Tews | May 27, 2024
How much can we trust artificial intelligence (AI)? How much could AI transform an industry as stodgy as healthcare, where other technologies have failed time and time again? These questions…
By Brian J. Miller | Ted Cho | Robert D. Glatter | May 24, 2024
As forthcoming elections loom large, the question of artificial intelligence (AI) generated deepfakes disseminating misleading messages purportedly from or about political candidates has become pressing. As illustrated in a recently published academic study on the…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 24, 2024
The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, comprising Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) have released their long-anticipated Roadmap for…
By John Bailey | May 22, 2024
Safeguarding minors from harms ostensibly caused by allegedly addictive speech-based technologies: That’s the impetus stoking a nationwide wave of lawsuits and legislation that collectively seek to compensate minors for injuries…
By Clay Calvert | May 21, 2024
This month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began formally winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), thus ending a subsidy program that supported 23 million households in paying for internet…
By Will Rinehart | May 21, 2024
A recent Australian court battle between the country’s eSafety commissioner (overseeing Australia’s self-professed “world leading” Online Safety Act) and Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) reveals issues about internet content and free speech. Should the laws, interpretations and enforcement…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 20, 2024
When it comes to deploying a new technology, there are no guarantees. While developers and policymakers do their best to minimize risk, innovation always requires a leap of faith. The…
By James Pethokoukis | Bronwyn Howell | May 17, 2024
Another month, another copyright infringement suit filed against OpenAI. In addition to previous litigation brought against artificial intelligence firms by the New York Times Company, an alliance of prominent authors, and…
By Michael M. Rosen | May 17, 2024