📆 EVENT: How can policymakers address #AI voice-cloning scams? More on this with Hodan Omaar on May 15 @ 12 PM ET. Stay up to date on who is speaking by visiting the event webpage! datainnovation.org/2024/05/how-ca…

Would Canada benefit from establishing a productivity commission modeled on the version that has been operating here in Australia for several decades? The evidence is hardly compelling, as Roy Green explains ⤵️ itif.org/publications/2…

📣 EVENT: Where does the #US robotics industry stand globally? Join ITIF at Special Competitive Studies Project's #AIExpo for National #Competitiveness on May 7 @ 1:00 PM ET, room 206 for this featured event. Speakers include Brendan Schulman (@BostonDynamics) & Megan Zimmerman (@NIST). itif.org/events/2024/05…

The The FCC's digital discrimination order is inconsistent w/ the IIJA, so expansive as to claim authority over major political & economic questions, and arbitrary & capricious. Amicus brief by Joe Kane & Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Ben Sperry & kristian stout ⤵️ itif.org/publications/2…

📱EVENT: Explore the intersection between #digital policy issues and the First Amendment alongside @ashleyjnsn, Aaron Mackey (@EFF), Kate Ruane (@CenDemTech) & nicole saad bembridge (@NetChoice) on May 16. RSVP now! itif.org/events/2024/05…

📆 EVENT: How can policymakers address #AI voice-cloning scams? More on this with Hodan Omaar on May 15 @ 12 PM ET. Stay up to date on who is speaking by visiting the event webpage! datainnovation.org/2024/05/how-ca…

Would Canada benefit from establishing a productivity commission modeled on the version that has been operating here in Australia for several decades? The evidence is hardly compelling, as Roy Green explains ⤵️ itif.org/publications/2…

🇨🇦 Canada lags behind its peers in key indicators of innovation, productivity, and economic competitiveness, according to a new report by the Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness, a newly formed Ottawa-based affiliate of ITIF. #IPC
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☣️ The about-face the scientific, academic, and tech communities have made on the risks of #LLMs creating biothreats should serve as a stark reminder for policymakers about the pitfalls of premature regulation, says Martin Makaryan.

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📆 EVENT: How can policymakers address #AI voice-cloning scams? More on this with Hodan Omaar on May 15 @ 12 PM ET. Stay up to date on who is speaking by visiting the event webpage! datainnovation.org/2024/05/how-ca…

🏢 Given the benefits large firms could offer in productivity, policymakers should refrain from regulations targeting firms based on their size and instead promote size-neutral regulations, says Trelysa Long

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The The FCC's digital discrimination order is inconsistent w/ the IIJA, so expansive as to claim authority over major political & economic questions, and arbitrary & capricious. Amicus brief by Joe Kane & Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Ben Sperry & kristian stout ⤵️ itif.org/publications/2…

📣 EVENT: Where does the #US robotics industry stand globally? Join ITIF at Special Competitive Studies Project's #AIExpo for National #Competitiveness on May 7 @ 1:00 PM ET, room 206 for this featured event. Speakers include Brendan Schulman (@BostonDynamics) & Megan Zimmerman (@NIST). itif.org/events/2024/05…

Big geo-economic policy choices are hard.

But then sometimes a graph tells you everything you need to know.

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We need a US-EU G2.

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🚨 ICYMI: The word “innovation” appears 97 times and “productivity” 63 times in Canada’s 2024 federal budget. But some spending is tangential to addressing Canada’s declining productivity & supporting 🇨🇦 innovation ecosystem. Lawrence Zhang breaks it down ⤵️ itif.org/publications/2…

Canada needs a productivity commission. But instead of emulating Australia’s model, which is driven by economic orthodoxy, Robert D. Atkinson argues it should take guidance from “productionists” who understand firm, industry, and technology dynamics. ⤵️ itif.org/publications/2…

🇪🇺 While the EU's DMA is framed as a safeguard for consumers & tech startups, it uses flawed antitrust principles to force US tech leaders to give away their creations at little to no cost. These investigations could be the beginning of a long fight.
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“Conservatives must acknowledge the fact that the rise of social media and Big Tech have made the marketplace for ideas far more open to conservative viewpoints,” Joe Coniglio writes ⤵️ itif.org/publications/2…

Would Canada benefit from establishing a productivity commission modeled on the version that has been operating here in Australia for several decades? The evidence is hardly compelling, as Roy Green explains ⤵️ itif.org/publications/2…

📱EVENT: Explore the intersection between #digital policy issues and the First Amendment alongside @ashleyjnsn, Aaron Mackey (@EFF), Kate Ruane (@CenDemTech) & nicole saad bembridge (@NetChoice) on May 16. RSVP now! itif.org/events/2024/05…