A year ago today, the Future of Life Institute released a letter calling for a 6-month pause in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) systems more powerful than GPT-4. The signers included…
By Will Rinehart | March 22, 2024
Did federal officials go too far and violate the First Amendment when they vigorously–– sometimes successfully––lobbied social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter (now X) to remove users and content questioning the…
By Clay Calvert | March 21, 2024
It's likely that LLMs may get worse before they get better. These are not merely necessarily bad consequences, but possible results as an emerging industry matures and the law catches…
By Daniel Lyons | March 20, 2024
The introduction of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe has sparked a heated debate about the delicate balance between promoting competition and ensuring user safety in the digital landscape.…
By Shane Tews | March 20, 2024
Among my millennial friends, and even more so for Gen Z, it’s common to believe that the United States is in terminal decline. But I remain an outlier because I…
By Will Rinehart | March 19, 2024
Before I was married and a parent, I would write with high dudgeon about the defects of involving government in the business of child-rearing. In 2002, for example, I wrote about…
By Jim Harper | March 19, 2024
The City and County of Honolulu about four years ago filed a “public nuisance” lawsuit against the energy producers, attempting to hold them liable for the purported effects of anthropogenic climate change…
By Ben Zycher | March 19, 2024
The late Queen Elizabeth II is believed to have once famously opined “I have to be seen to be believed.” While Her Majesty’s words were assumed to be referring to the bright-colored…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 18, 2024
Key Points Read the PDF.https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/A-Choice-of-Law-Alternative-to-Federal-Preemption-of-State-Privacy-Law.pdf?x85095 Introduction A prominent theme in debates about US national privacy legislation is whether federal law should preempt state law. A federal statute could create one…
By Jim Harper | Geoffrey A. Manne | March 15, 2024
National markets need a national regulator, right? It makes no sense to have our large American companies face as many as 50 regulators. The inefficiencies are obvious, and the logic…
By Jim Harper | March 15, 2024
Sometimes US Supreme Court concurring opinions—those that agree with the majority’s result, but perhaps for different reasons—read more like dissents. The recent concurrence of Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson…
By Clay Calvert | March 14, 2024
In the halls of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and across the Atlantic in the chambers of the European Commission (EC), not to mention within the borders of Florida and…
By Mark Jamison | March 13, 2024
Behind the growing challenge of robocalls lies a complex digital economy. As our digital footprints grow and our phone numbers become a key aspect of our online identity, providers and…
By Shane Tews | March 12, 2024
During oral arguments last month before the US Supreme Court in the First Amendment cases of Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, much discussion involved their procedural posture as facial challenges(not as-applied attacks) against Florida and Texas statutes…
By Clay Calvert | March 11, 2024
As the five-year anniversary approaches of the March 15 live streamed massacre of 51 people (with 50 more injured) by a lone shooter at two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques, it is apposite…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 8, 2024