Artificial Intelligence

Fears that AI will trigger widespread job losses are increasingly contradicted by new evidence showing that firms adopting AI intensively hire more workers—including entry-level employees—and expand employment across a wide range of occupations. Rather than slowing AI adoption, policymakers should accelerate it through a national AI strategy while pushing back against misleading narratives that undermine productivity, competitiveness, and economic growth.

The GUARD Act would effectively ban minors from AI companions through broad age-verification requirements, raising concerns about free speech, privacy, parental authority, and the growing patchwork of state regulations. Instead, policymakers should focus on transparency, stronger parental controls, and other targeted safeguards that protect children without cutting them off from beneficial AI tools.

Adversarial AI distillation poses a growing threat to U.S. technological leadership, national security, and AI safety by enabling foreign actors to extract the capabilities of frontier models without authorization. Policymakers should strengthen legal and technical defenses against industrial-scale model theft while ensuring any response preserves legitimate AI research, innovation, and the responsible use of distillation.

Regulatory interventions should be calibrated to the nature and magnitude of the harm they address, should not restrict beneficial uses of AI in pursuit of harms that existing law already addresses, and should preserve the open information environment that has underpinned both technological innovation and European cultural production

Alex Ambrose speaks about wearable AI in emergency response on the panel "Governance, Oversight, and Accountability in Technology Enabled Emergency Management," hosted by the NALEO Institute on Technology and AI in Emergency Management.

The right goal for Korea is not an AI tax, but an AI diffusion strategy paired with sound tax reform. The government should help firms adopt AI, help workers transition, and make sure productivity gains are broadly shared, without making the use of AI itself more expensive.

Cities that are successfully scaling AI are investing in workforce upskilling alongside governance and technology deployment. Case studies from Washington, DC, San Jose, Seattle, and Cleveland show that employee training and AI literacy are critical to turning pilot projects into lasting improvements in public service delivery.

Echoing social capitalism, the encyclical gets technology and employment wrong, succumbing to the lump-of-labor fallacy and short-term protection over long-term progress.

Watch now for a discussion on recently introduced chatbot safety bills up for debate in Congress, including the GUARD Act and CHATBOT Act, and what policymakers, parents, and platforms could do to protect children without bans.

The Pope’s AI encyclical reflects social capitalism’s animus toward growth, technology-driven creative destruction, international economic competition, and large business.