Artificial Intelligence

As AI systems gain greater autonomy, policymakers should prioritize research and safeguards that make dangerous behavior harder to initiate, easier to detect, and faster to contain. Emergency shutdown capabilities can be one useful tool in that effort, but a government‑mandated kill switch is neither universally feasible nor sufficient to address the broader challenges posed by autonomous AI.

If AI’s supposed “champions” don’t want people to be afraid, they should stop selling fear.

AI presents real risks that warrant serious investment in security, testing, monitoring, and accountability, but claims that it poses an imminent existential threat lack a clear empirical basis. Rather than slowing AI development, policymakers should focus on evidence-based safeguards that make increasingly capable AI systems safer and more reliable.

Daniel Castro moderates a panel on how the United States can responsibly govern the rapid development of data centers at the 2026 Internet Governance Forum USA hosted by the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter.

For policymakers to bolster the global competitiveness and innovation capacity of their regions, they must first understand their regions’ strengths and weaknesses. This report—by 11 think tanks from the Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance (GTIPA)—benchmarks 213 regions of 13 transatlantic countries using 14 commonly available innovation indicators.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the general-purpose technology of this decade, and possibly even this century, with impacts predicted to be as deep and diffuse as electricity and the Internet. As with other general-purpose technologies in their nascent stages, much still remains uncertain regarding AI’s capacity and direction. This report provides GTIPA members’ perspectives the state of innovation policy on AI around the world, compiling 32 vignettes from 28 think tanks in 30 countries.

Firms that increased their investment in artificial intelligence experienced significantly faster productivity growth from 2018 to 2024, roughly one additional percentage point of productivity growth per year.

Data centers can deliver substantial tax revenue, jobs, infrastructure investment, and lower utility costs when communities adopt policies that capture their benefits while managing local impacts.

Major agreements, new participants, and key diplomatic and industrial milestones in the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative, which aims to secure global supply chains that underpin AI and other advanced technologies.

The United States will not realize the full benefits of AI if policymakers treat it primarily as a technology that needs to be constrained.