In my latest column for The Hill, I explore how “State and Local Meddling Threatens to Undermine the AI Revolution” in America as mountains of parochial tech mandates accumulate. We need a fe...
https://techliberation.com/2024/01/22/we-need-federal-preemption-of-state-local-ai-regulation/
Here’s a new DC EKG podcast I recently appeared on to discuss the current state of policy development surrounding artificial intelligence. In our wide-ranging chat, we discussed: * why a sector...
https://techliberation.com/2023/12/12/podcast-ai-dc-policymakers-face-a-crossroads/
My latest dispatch from the frontlines of the artificial intelligence policy wars in Washington looks at the major proposals to regulate AI. In my new essay, “Artificial Intelligence Legislativ...
https://techliberation.com/2023/10/17/can-any-ai-legislation-pass-congress-this-session/
The Brookings Institution hosted this excellent event on frontier AI regulation this week featuring a panel discussion I was on that followed opening remarks from Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). I come in ...
https://techliberation.com/2023/09/15/event-video-debating-frontier-ai-regulation/
I was my pleasure to participate in this Cato Institute event today on “Who’s Leading on AI Policy? Examining EU and U.S. Policy Proposals and the Future of AI.” Cato’s Jennifer Huddlesto...
https://techliberation.com/2023/09/12/event-video-whos-leading-on-ai-policy/
The New York Times today published my response to an oped by Senators Lindsey Graham & Elizabeth Warren calling for a new “Digital Consumer Protection Commission” to micromanage the high-tech...
As I noted in a recent interview with James Pethokoukis for his Faster, Please! newsletter, “he current policy debate over artificial intelligence is haunted by many mythologies and mistaken ...
https://techliberation.com/2023/06/22/is-ai-really-an-unregulated-wild-west/
Can we advance AI safety without new international regulatory bureaucracies, licensing schemes or global surveillance systems? I explore that question in my latest R Street Institute study, “Ex...
https://techliberation.com/2023/06/16/new-report-do-we-need-global-government-to-address-ai-risk/
This week, I appeared on the Tech Freedom Tech Policy Podcast to discuss “Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?” It’s an in-depth, wide-ranging conversation about all things AI related...
https://techliberation.com/2023/06/12/podcast-whos-afraid-of-artificial-intelligence/
It was my pleasure to recently appear on the Independent Women’s Forum’s “She Thinks” podcast to discuss “Artificial Intelligence for Dummies.” In this 24-minute conversation with ho...
https://techliberation.com/2023/06/12/podcast-artificial-intelligence-for-dummies/
Here’s the video from a June 6th event on, “Does the US Need a New AI Regulator?” which was co-hosted by Center for Data Innovation & R Street Institute. We discuss algorithmic audits, AI l...
https://techliberation.com/2023/06/07/event-video-does-the-us-need-a-new-ai-regulator/
It was my pleasure to recently join Matthew Lesh, Director of Public Policy and Communications for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), for the IEA podcast discussion, “Should ...
https://techliberation.com/2023/05/08/podcast-should-we-regulate-ai/
The R Street Institute has just released my latest study on AI governance and how to address “alignment” concerns in a bottom-up fashion. The 40-page report is entitled, “Flexible, Pro-Inno...
https://techliberation.com/2023/04/20/my-latest-study-on-ai-governance/
Recently, the Future of Life Institute released an open letter that included some computer science luminaries and others calling for a 6-month “pause” on the deployment and research of “g...
In my latest R Street Institute report, I discuss the importance of “Getting AI Innovation Culture Right.” This is the first of a trilogy of major reports on what sort of policy vision and se...
https://techliberation.com/2023/04/02/what-policy-vision-for-artificial-intelligence/
I have a new R Street Institute policy study out this week doing a deep dive into the question: “Can We Predict the Jobs and Skills Needed for the AI Era?” There’s lots of hand-wringing goi...
https://techliberation.com/2023/03/11/why-isnt-everyone-already-unemployed-due-to-automation/
This week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competitiveness, Inclusion, and Innovation (AI Commission) released a major report on the policy considerations surro...
https://techliberation.com/2023/03/11/us-chamber-ai-commission-launches/
In my latest R Street Institute blog post, “Mapping the AI Policy Landscape Circa 2023: Seven Major Fault Lines,” I discuss the big issues confronting artificial intelligence and machine lear...
https://techliberation.com/2023/02/10/7-ai-policy-issues-to-watch-in-2023-and-beyond/
In an earlier essay, I explored “Why the Future of AI Will Not Be Invented in Europe” and argued that, “there is no doubt that European competitiveness is suffering today and that excessi...
https://techliberation.com/2023/02/09/studies-document-growing-cost-of-eu-privacy-regulations/
President Biden began his 2023 State of the Union remarks by saying America is defined by possibilities. Correct! Unfortunately, his tech-bashing will undermine those possibilities by discouragin...
The Wall Street Journal has run my response to troubling recent opeds by President Biden (“Republicans and Democrats, Unite Against Big Tech Abuses“) and former Trump Administration Attorney...
https://techliberation.com/2023/01/26/self-inflicted-technological-suicide/
I spent much of 2022 writing about the growing policy debate over artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and the Computational Revolution more generally. Here are some of the major ...
https://techliberation.com/2022/12/26/ai-policy-research-my-year-in-review/
Everywhere you look in tech policy land these days, people decry China as a threat to America’s technological supremacy or our national security. Many of these claims are well-founded, while ot...
https://techliberation.com/2022/12/11/revisionist-histories-of-americas-digital-revolution/
Over at Discourse magazine this week, my R Street colleague Jonathan Cannon and I have posted a new essay on how it has been “Quite a Fall for Digital Tech.” We mean that both in the sense ...
I have a new oped in the Orange County Register discussing reforms that can help address the growing problem of “zombie government,” or old government policies and programs that just seem t...
https://techliberation.com/2022/12/08/sunsets-sandboxes-can-help-slay-zombie-government/
My colleague Wayne Brough and I recently went on the “Kibbe on Liberty” show to discuss how to discuss the state of free speech on the internet. We explained how censorship is a Big Governmen...
We are entering a new era for technology policy in which many pundits and policymakers will use “algorithmic fairness” as a universal Get Out of Jail Free card when they push for new regulati...
For my latest Discourse column (“We Really Need To ‘Have a Conversation’ About AI … or Do We?”), I discuss two commonly heard lines in tech policy circles. 1) “We need to have conve...
I’ve been floating around in conservative policy circles for 30 years and I have spent much of that time covering media policy and child safety issues. My time in conservative circles began in ...
It was my pleasure this week to participate in a panel discussion about the future of innovation policy at the James Madison Institute’s 2022 Tech and Innovation Summit in Coral Gables, FL. Our...