Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Here the video from a December 10th Federalist Society event on “AI Policy In President Trump’s Second Term.” It features my comments alongside:
As always, all my recent essays, podcasts, and event video about AI policy can be found here.
The Technology Policy Institute has posted the video of my talk at the 2024 Aspen Forum panel on “How Should we Regulate the Digital World?” My remarks run from 33:33–44:12 of the video. I also elaborate briefly during Q&A.
My remarks at this year’s TPI Aspen Forum panel were derived from my R Street Institute essay, “The Policy Origins of the Digital Revolution & the Continuing Case for the Freedom to Innovate,” which sketches out a pro-freedom vision for the Computational Revolution.
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 federal response, but we’re not likely to get the right one, I argue.
I specifically highlight the danger of new measures from big states like NY and California, but it’s the patchwork of all the state and local regs that will result in a sort of ‘death-by-a-thousand-cuts’ for AI innovation as the red tape grows and hinders innovation and capital formation.
What we need is the same sort of principled, pro-innovation federal framework or AI that we adopted for the Internet a generation ago. Specifically, we need some sort of preemption of most of the state and local constraints on what is inherently national (and even global) commerce and speech.
Alas, Congress appears incapable of getting even basic things done on tech policy these days. Continue reading →
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