The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical nature of access to fast and affordable internet service. Demand for high-speed internet access, defined as “broadband,” has soared to new heights. One measurement found that in only a few weeks the pandemic drove almost a year’s worth of broadband traffic growth. The internet is no longer “nice …
Executive summary Fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks are expected to be the next big leap in mobile broadband. Peak download speeds as high as 20 gigabits-per-second will enable specialized tasks like remote precision medicine, connected cars, virtual and augmented reality, and a wide array of internet of things (IoT) applications. Nationwide, resilient 5G networks will be …
For the majority of the world, it is impossible to think of life without the internet. Think about life and work during COVID-19 when internet connectivity and digitalization were among the most necessary aspects of daily life. The internet allows us to stay entertained, informed, and, most importantly, connected. The internet is now a basic …
On April 28, the Biden administration announced a new global partnership that sets norms for the use of technology by nation-states: the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. While the declaration might seem like a reproach of the digital authoritarianism of Russia and China, it is far more likely to warn off wavering democracies …
Can journalism survive artificial intelligence (AI)? The answer will depend on whether journalism can adapt its business models to the AI era. If policymakers intervene to correct market imbalances, they must enforce intellectual property rights and ensure that journalism has a fighting chance in the era of generative AI. Over the past nearly two decades, …
The emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022, followed by several other generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, created unprecedented urgency for guardrails around AI. In the year since, a call for a pause on training these large-scale AI models and predictions that powerful AI could cause human extinction or a future without work sparked a rush of …
In a major breakthrough, many of the leading developers of artificial intelligence (AI) technology—companies that in their earlier iteration had been hardline opponents of regulation—have now embraced governmental oversight of their activities. Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained the conversion bluntly, “AI is too important not to regulate and too important not to regulate well.” The …
In a recent post, antitrust advocate Matt Stoller welcomes “a national discussion to actually build a healthy air grid, and turn away from the deregulation that has brought us so much trouble.” The occasion for his rejoicing is an antitrust court’s rejection of a merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. He welcomes the court’s recognition …
As the world becomes further shaped by artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, a revolution of a different shade is quietly brewing in the realm of quantum information science and technology (QIST). Quantum computing, in particular, represents a potentially transformative force across the scientific, economic, and defense sectors in the United States. In stark …