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October 18, 2024|Blogs
Fact of the Week: Tensions Have Led to a 3.7 Percent Decline in the Probability of Chinese Students Enrolling in a US PhD Program
Since 2015, the number of Chinese students enrolling in U.S. PhD programs has decreased by about 3.7 percent, while the probability a Chinese student will enroll in a PhD program in another English-speaking country, such as the UK, Australia, or Canada, has increased by 2.1 percent.
October 18, 2024|Blogs
Audio Watermarking Won’t Solve the Real Dangers of AI Voice Manipulation
Audio watermarking won’t mitigate the risks associated with AI-generated voice cloning. The challenge isn’t only technical but also social—how people consume and trust media.
October 15, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Why Canada Doesn’t Need Another Broadband Provider
Canadian telecommunications policy under successive governments has taken for granted that the domestic industry suffers an inadequate supply of market participants. But that assumption is unmoored from reality on various fronts.
October 15, 2024|Blogs
Studies Show AI Triggers Delirium in Leading Experts
Absent major policy intervention, the experts tell us, AI will drive up income inequality to stratospheric levels. This idea is becoming de rigueur in Western intellectual circles, even though the underlying arguments supporting it are fallacious to the point of absurdity.
October 15, 2024|Blogs
Fact of the Week: In Small Island Developing States, Repeated Instances of Hurricanes Lead to an Increase in Green Innovations
Researchers find that in the long term, hurricanes positively impact green innovations in small island developing nations.
October 10, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
California Legislators Are Not Equipped to Rework Their AI Law
Legislators currently lack the necessary information about how harms from AI systems may materialize and evolve in the real world to design truly effective regulations.
October 9, 2024|Blogs
Europe Might Wrap the Tech Industry in Even More Red Tape
Europe needs to pump the brakes on new regulations before it can properly assess the long-term effects of the GDPR, DSA, DMA, and AI Act.
October 8, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
How to Win Techno-Economic Competition with China
It is often said that the Chinese economy cannot innovate. This is a dangerous assumption.
October 7, 2024|Blogs
Fact of the Week: US Small Businesses Are 47 Percent as Productive as Big Businesses
In the United States, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are just 47 percent as productive as large firms, compared to 60 percent in other advanced economies.
October 7, 2024|Blogs
Boom in State Digital Replica Laws Fuels Need for Federal Publicity Right
Congress should pass an amended version of the NO FAKES Act that preempts all existing and future state digital likeness laws. This would ensure consistent IP protections for all Americans—including performers—support innovation in entertainment, and prevent a patchwork of state digital replica laws.