The United States still holds a substantial overall lead in AI, but China has continued to reduce the gap in some important areas and the EU continues to fall behind.
With the White House convening a discussion this week on implications of AI to be followed days later by the 25th International Joint Conference on AI, Rob Atkinson rebuts myths about the technology in the Huffington Post.
The Illinois legislature failed to fix its broken biometrics law that was focused on unrealized harms, say Alan McQuinn and Daniel Castro in the Illinois State Journal-Register.
Critics claim AI will produce a parade of horribles, from joblessness to our eventual doom. This report debunks such myths and explains why policymakers should actively support AI innovation.
Stephen Ezell gave a presentation to the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis on Thursday, May 12 explaining how the Internet of Things will impact modern smart manufacturing processes and products and articulating why countries need national Internet of Things strategies.
Although the United States operated 263 of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers in 2011, that number dropped to 199 in 2015—a 25 percent decrease, writes John Wu in Innovation Files.
U.S. labor law doesn’t know what to do with people who make all or part of their living on gig-enabling Internet platforms like Uber or TaskRabbit. Policymakers should fix the law, adapt it, or suspend it.
With the launch of the FAA’s drone registry and forthcoming rules, this year will likely be a turning point in the development of unmanned aircraft systems in the United States.