The EU AI Act disproportionately burdens U.S. AI firms with compliance costs and potential fines that could weaken U.S. competitiveness with China. Europe should simplify its regulatory framework and deepen cooperation with Washington to support innovation and economic growth on both sides of the Atlantic.

The United States needs a strong domestic semiconductor manufacturing base to support economic growth, strengthen supply chains, and remain globally competitive. To sustain investment in new U.S. semiconductor facilities, policymakers should make the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit permanent.

Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received, on average, three to eight times more government support than firms based in OECD economies, even while using conservative estimates.

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.

In an op-ed for National Review, President Daniel Castro argues that the United States should address specific AI risks without sacrificing the economic freedom, competition, and market-driven innovation that give America an edge over China in the global AI race.

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.

A 1 percentage point increase in an industry’s exposure to H-1B workers raises the long-run income of college-educated native workers in non-STEM occupations by about a 1.21 percent increase. In Computer Systems Design, the industry most exposed to H-1B immigration, this translates into an approximately 15 percent increase in long-run income for native non-STEM workers.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr argues that broadcast content regulation is justified by the government’s role in allocating scarce spectrum. But the historical and technical distinctions he draws between broadcasting and other media do not justify subjecting broadcast speech to lesser First Amendment protection.

Washington is now more focused on China but remains in denial about the threat. Fourteen rationalizations explain why its techno-economic response remains limited.