Artificial Intelligence

Join ITIF 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.

As Daniel Castro writes in Tech Policy Press, U.S. export controls were intended to preserve America’s AI lead, but by accelerating China’s push for technological self-sufficiency and strengthening competing AI ecosystems, they may be undermining that goal.

Daniel Castro speaks about policy opportunities and challenges at the Partnerships for Autonomous Science Workshop hosted by the AI Science Foundry at Carnegie Mellon University.

Unlike training-data disputes, CNN's lawsuit against Perplexity alleges near-verbatim reproduction of its journalism through AI search products. Policymakers should favor targeted enforcement—not sweeping AI restrictions.

Proposals to tax AI computing power are proliferating as concerns about AI grow. But an AI compute tax would slow productivity growth, drive investment abroad, and do little to protect workers or preserve the tax base.

Five states—Utah, Connecticut, Ohio, Texas, and North Carolina—are showing how centralized AI sandboxes, oversight frameworks, and clear evaluation metrics can help governments move beyond isolated pilot programs and scale AI tools to deliver measurable improvements in public services.

AI systems like Robin could reshape early-stage drug discovery, but only if policymakers support the data, infrastructure, regulatory clarity, and incentives needed to scale them responsibly.

Despite Magnifica Humanitas’s discussion of AI and economic power, today’s AI market remains highly competitive, and policymakers should be cautious about using monopoly fears to justify heavy-handed regulation.

As new technologies such as AI expand both user-directed and provider-driven personalization capabilities in digital systems, policymakers should ensure that personalization strengthens transparency, accountability, and user control rather than constrain its development.