Korea’s AI Action Plan reflects a positive shift by allowing the use of personal data without pseudonymization to improve AI performance, but it is undermined by a conflicting requirement to keep AI training infrastructure within domestic servers. This data localization rule risks isolating Korea’s AI ecosystem from global cloud resources, increasing costs, limiting innovation, and reducing competitiveness for both developers and consumers. The blog argues that Korea should adopt risk based, technology neutral safeguards instead of geographic restrictions to protect data while enabling globally competitive AI development.

Chairman Carr is refining his legal case for regulating broadcast content through license renewals, but even this more sophisticated approach runs headlong into serious First Amendment problems.

Rather than proposing universal basic income as the solution to robots supposedly taking all our jobs, the task should be to improve federal worker adjustment assistance programs.

Despite what the apostles of artificial general intelligence warn, there is no reason to think AGI will get here anytime soon, if ever.

Seventy percent of young Koreans hold university degrees. Only 14 percent of jobs are in large firms. The most immediate concern is not jobs disappearing due to AI, but that there are too few high-quality jobs in the first place.

A study of a 2010s expansion of high-speed broadband across Turkey found that that access to high-speed Internet increased formal employment and wages, with the greatest effects concentrated in telework-possible positions and among women.

The pharmaceutical and medicine industry has seen its productivity decline by 2.4 percent annually between 2014 and 2024, one of the worst performances among U.S. manufacturing industries.

Congress is right to flag Alipay over national security and data risks, but a blanket ban without first conducting audits or establishing reciprocity safeguards would be premature. Regulators should investigate the platform before Congress considers banning it.

New research shows that widely cited statistics on concentration, markups, and profits are often plagued by measurement and interpretation difficulties, meaning they cannot reliably be used to prove an economy-wide decline in competition.

WEF should articulate a global productivity agenda to make a meaningful contribution, because the kind of capitalism we have today is not the reason for slow growth in many developing economies.