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, …
Efforts to regulate internet platforms in the U.S. are often stymied by a fundamental disagreement. Some voters and leaders—mostly Democrats—want platforms to remove more content, including “lawful but awful” material like medical misinformation or hate speech. Some—mostly Republicans—want platforms to remove less content. These same competing impulses also appear in litigation. Some plaintiffs sue to …
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 …