Artificial Intelligence
Navigate forward to interact with the calendar and select a date. Press the question mark key to get the keyboard shortcuts for changing dates.
Navigate backward to interact with the calendar and select a date. Press the question mark key to get the keyboard shortcuts for changing dates.
As every sector of the global economy and nearly every facet of modern society undergo digital transformation, ITIF advocates for policies that spur not just the development of IT innovations, but more importantly their adoption and use throughout the economy. In the area of artificial intelligence, ITIF studies issues related to competitiveness, governance, ethics, development, and adoption.

Vice President and Director, Center for Data Innovation
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Read BioFeatured
Why Korea Should Rethink Data Localization to Become an AI Powerhouse

Korea is trying to unlock high quality data for AI competitiveness, but its push for strict domestic data storage risks isolating developers from the global infrastructure and partnerships modern AI depends on. A more effective approach would protect sensitive data through targeted safeguards rather than blunt geographic restrictions that ultimately undermine innovation and market competition.
More Publications and Events
March 23, 2026|Blogs
AI and Kids’ Safety Need Separate Solutions, Not New Problems
The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act combines AI regulation with children’s online safety legislation in a single bill, creating overbroad, ill-suited policies that increase compliance burdens and ultimately weaken both innovation and effective protection of minors. These issues should be addressed separately with targeted approaches.
March 20, 2026|Blogs
Utah Shows How States Should Regulate AI in Healthcare
Policymakers who want to protect patients while ensuring clinicians can use tools that improve care should look to Utah for how regulatory sandboxes can maximize patient access to beneficial tools while minimizing clinical risk.
March 20, 2026|Blogs
KCTU’s Digital Policy Push Risks Protecting Yesterday’s Jobs at the Expense of Tomorrow’s Workers
As Korea’s labor debate moves into digital policy, unions risk harming workers in the next generation of industries by prioritizing protections for existing jobs over preparing workers for technological transition.
March 19, 2026|Blogs
Polling as Propaganda: How Blue Rose Research’s AI Survey Misleads
A poll built on leading questions, false choices, and fearmongering does not reflect actual public opinion on AI. It shows how to optimize disinformation for partisan messaging.
March 15, 2026|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Will Artificial Intelligence Turn Out to Be a Dream Killer?
Despite what the apostles of artificial general intelligence warn, there is no reason to think AGI will get here anytime soon, if ever.
March 14, 2026|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Korea’s Real Jobs Problem Isn’t AI
Seventy percent of young Koreans hold university degrees. Only 14 percent of jobs are in large firms. The most immediate concern is not jobs disappearing due to AI, but that there are too few high-quality jobs in the first place.
March 13, 2026|Reports & Briefings
How Rules for Publicly Available Data Are Shaping the Future of AI
To protect individuals while preserving the open information ecosystem that supports innovation, policymakers should focus on outputs rather than training inputs, encourage transparency norms for autonomous AI agents, and create a safe harbor for responsible use of publicly available data.
March 12, 2026|Blogs
UBI: Unbelievably Bad Idea
Rather than proposing universal basic income as the solution to robots supposedly taking all our jobs, the task should be to improve federal worker adjustment assistance programs.
March 5, 2026|Events
Context Matters: Building Trust in Digital Content
Watch the Capitol Hill event, presented by ITIF and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), where expert panelists discussed how content transparency can strengthen trust across the digital ecosystem.
March 4, 2026|Blogs
The European Parliament Should Manage Built-In AI, Not Disable It
The European Parliament has disabled built-in AI features on corporate tablets and phones issued to MEPs and staff over concerns that data sent to cloud services by these features presented a security risk. This decision is misguided because it does not address security risks, drives AI use into the shadows, disrupts everyday productivity tools, and imposes disproportionate costs on the Parliament’s smaller delegations.





