Publications: Daniel Castro

In the short term, Congress should move quickly to reauthorize CISA 2015 and fund the agency’s operations, even if the overall government funding fight continues. Then, to keep CISA fully operational in the future, Congress also should create a dedicated funding stream so the agency doesn’t have to rely so heavily on appropriations.

Lawmakers in Montana, New Hampshire, and Idaho are advancing “right to compute” laws to protect individuals and businesses from limits on their ability to use computational tools and AI systems.

Daniel Castro sat down with Quinn Taber to explore how the United States is moving away from a free market toward one where the government actively directs investment in critical industries.

Rather than following the UK’s lead on children’s online safety, U.S. policymakers should learn from their mistakes and chart a better path that skillfully preserves user privacy, limits collateral damage, and removes the incentives for online services to over-remove lawful content.

The Trump administration doubled down on its push for the federal government to take financial stakes or other commercial interests in major U.S. companies—a policy that would weaken American competitiveness, invite political manipulation, and undermine the very goals of U.S. industrial strategy.

The Trump administration should maintain export controls where they clearly advance national security. But it should also ensure that U.S. companies can compete globally, reinvest in innovation, and remain central to the technologies that will shape the future.

The Senate's decision to remove the 10-year AI moratorium is a major setback for U.S. leadership in AI. The vote isn’t surprising given the criticism of the moratorium, but those critiques are misguided, and here's why.

Fragmented and conflicting state AI regulations threaten to slow federal IT modernization, and a proposed 10-year moratorium aims to create a unified national framework to support innovation and maintain U.S. leadership in AI.

ITIF respectfully urges the FRA to approve the requested relief and to initiate broader regulatory modernization that embraces autonomous safety technologies.

A patchwork of state and local retail delivery fees that act as hidden taxes on everyday purchases. Without federal action, these fees could spread rapidly—making it more expensive for Americans to buy everything from groceries to school supplies.