Publications

AI-enabled “ghost student” scams are siphoning millions in federal financial aid by exploiting weak, document-based identity verification systems at U.S. colleges. While the Department of Education has tightened ID checks, Congress should establish interoperable, high-assurance digital IDs to prevent fraud at scale and ensure aid reaches real students.

In 2025, more than one-third of individuals (36.8 percent) used generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude.

Over the last decade, U.S. trade performance has deteriorated significantly in advanced industries. That is a major problem because these industries have high fixed costs and require substantial investments in R&D, so they depend on large customer bases to achieve scale economies and remain globally competitive.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness (CCIC) appreciates the opportunity to contribute to Global Affairs Canada’s consultation on a potential Canada-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement.

A Morning Consult survey commissioned by ITIF examines public attitudes toward AI in military operations, surveillance, and corporate responsibility surrounding the Pentagon–Anthropic dispute.

In Tech Policy Press, Daniel Castro argues that a dispute between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic over military AI use underscores the need for Congress—not executive pressure or private contracts—to set clear statutory guardrails for deploying AI in national defense.

Chinese online marketplaces like AliExpress and Temu often list counterfeits of American products while limiting search engine indexing, making it difficult for rights holders to detect infringements. The U.S. Trade Representative should include these platforms on the 2025 Notorious Markets List and consider indexing transparency as a criterion for future listings.

Maryland’s proposed broadband price controls for low-income households would undermine investment and fail to solve affordability, leaving vulnerable families worse off than a consumer-focused voucher approach would.

Amidst this time of increasing technological dynamism and global tensions, and given the special relationship that exists between the United States and the UK, the CMA should reassess how it can implement the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 in a more light-touch way.

The international reference pricing-based GUARD model lacks a sound premise for its rationale, is fundamentally flawed in its design, and should be withdrawn in full by CMS.