Center for Data Innovation
ITIF’s Center for Data Innovation formulates and promotes pragmatic public policies designed to maximize the benefits of data-driven innovation in the public and private sectors. It educates policymakers and the public about the opportunities and challenges associated with data, as well as technology trends such as open data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. For more, get the Center’s weekly emails and visit datainnovation.org.
Featured Publications
Why AI-Generated Content Labeling Mandates Fall Short

Mandatory labeling for AI-generated content, particularly through watermarking, is neither a reasonable nor effective solution to the issues policymakers seek to address. Rather than singling out AI-generated content, policymakers should prioritize building trust within the digital ecosystem as a whole.
Digital Transformation Should Be at the Heart of the UK’s Economic Agenda

The UK stands at a critical moment when embracing digital transformation, AI, and data innovation is not just an opportunity but also a necessity. By implementing forward-thinking policies, the UK can not only drive economic growth but also position itself as a global leader in emerging technologies.
From Cart to Claim: Addressing Product Liability in Online Marketplaces

State product liability laws traditionally hold manufacturers, distributors, and sellers strictly liable for defective products they bring to market. As consumers increasingly make purchases from online marketplaces—platforms that aggregate products from multiple third-party sellers—new questions arise about how to best protect them from defective products that pose a risk to health and safety.
Events
November 20, 2025
Improving Workplaces With Data and Technology
Watch now for a panel discussion on how data and technology can create safer, healthier, and more productive workplaces, and the policies needed to encourage adoption while protecting workers.
September 16, 2025
What It Will Take to Bring the Global South into the US AI Alliance
Watch ITIF's Center for Data Innovation discussion on how the United States can build a durable AI alliance that creates strategic partnerships that are mutually beneficial and contains China’s growing technological influence in the Global South.
May 13, 2025
How Americans Feel About AI—and Why It Matters for Policy
Watch now for a timely discussion by ITIF's Center for Data Innovation and Public First surrounding new polling data exploring how U.S. public sentiment toward AI is evolving. The conversation unpacks where Americans see promise or peril, how their views have shifted over the past year, and what these perspectives mean for lawmakers, business leaders, and the future of AI policy.
April 17, 2025
Is U.S. Policy Ready for Agentic AI?
Watch now for a panel discussion by ITIF's Center for Data Innovation on what the rise of agentic AI means for innovation, competition, and policy, how prepared the United States is to keep pace, and what policy shifts might be needed to ensure consumers and businesses can successfully develop and deploy AI agents.
April 8, 2025
Why the UK Needs a Broad Text and Data Mining Exception to Support AI Innovation
Watch now for the Center for Data Innovation's discussion on the potential consequences of the UK government’s proposed option and how creating a more permissive text and data mining exception would advance the UK’s goals of being competitive in AI without undermining the rights of creators.

Vice President and Director, Center for Data Innovation
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Read BioMore From the Center
December 12, 2025|Blogs
Why the DMA Interoperability Investigations Poison Innovation
The DMA’s forced interoperability undermines platform differentiation, weakens security and reliability, and ultimately leaves European consumers with degraded versions of global technologies.
December 5, 2025|Blogs
Europe Writes the Rules and the World Pays the Price
The EU’s digital rulebook, often praised as global leadership, instead forces many non-EU countries into costly regulatory alignment that stifles local innovation and entrenches global digital inequality, underscoring the need for more flexible, locally tailored frameworks.
December 4, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Banning AI Superintelligence Would Be a Historic Mistake
In an op-ed for The Dispatch, Daniel Castro argues that banning superintelligent AI is misguided because it’s based on speculation, would undermine U.S. innovation and security, and should be replaced with strong oversight—not restrictions on advancing knowledge.
November 24, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
China, US Can Compete and Cooperate on AI
In China Daily, Daniel Castro argues that the U.S. and China face AI risks—like models enabling biological threats or cyberattacks—that are too great for either to manage alone, and can be mitigated through coordinated safety measures such as joint research, incident reporting, and red-team testing.
November 24, 2025|Blogs
Why Objections to Federal Preemption of State AI Laws Are Wrong
Fifty conflicting state AI laws create a fragmented, innovation-crushing patchwork, which federal preemption can solve by establishing a single, coherent national framework for AI regulation.
November 17, 2025|Blogs
The AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act Will Only Create Confusion
The proposed AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act would create misleading, unhelpful data and unfairly stigmatize AI adoption, diverting attention from more effective ways to measure technology’s real impacts and support workers.
November 13, 2025|Blogs
What Senator Blackburn Gets Wrong About Google’s AI
Senator Blackburn’s call to shut down Google’s AI over a false claim is misguided, as the error came from a small, open developer model not designed for factual accuracy, and the incident does not demonstrate political bias or systemic failure.






