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aei. org > technology-and-innovation > can-cybersecurity-policy-keep-up-with-ai

Can Cybersecurity Policy Keep Up with AI?

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (933+ words) Kevin Frazier is the director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and a senior fellow at the Abundance Institute. He has testified before Congress on artificial intelligence and emerging…...

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aei. org > health-care > the-shifting-budgetary-outlook-for-medicare-part-d

The Shifting Budgetary Outlook for Medicare Part D

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (217+ words) Medicare part D, which covers outpatient prescription drugs, is undergoing a planned transformationfrom multiple policy interventions, most of which were advertised as relieving financial pressure by lowering the prices charged by the manufacturers. What was not signaled asa possible outcomewas…...

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aei. org > domestic-policy > does-more-pay-equal-a-better-job

Does More Pay Equal a Better Job?

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (161+ words) A new Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Labor Review helps clarify the relationship between pay and job satisfaction. The take-home message is a resounding, "It depends." Using Federal Reserve survey data on workers who changed jobs between 2021 and 2023, the report…...

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aei. org > technology-and-innovation > judicial-conservatives-mostly-awol-in-chatrie

Judicial Conservatives Mostly AWOL in Chatrie

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (509+ words) While more work may lie ahead to bring coherence to our Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, perhaps this is a start." Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded optimistic notes at the end of his concurrence in the Supreme Court's decision in Chatrie v. United States....

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aei. org > economics > what-america-thought-about-itself-in-1976

What America Thought About Itself in 1976

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (258+ words) Americans were ready to have fun during the American Bicentennial in 1976. Surprised? You might think it was a country still gloomily obsessed with the Vietnam War and Watergate. Maybe it still kind of was. But Americans also thought better days…...

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aei. org > domestic-policy > when-it-comes-to-vaccines-and-autism-it-is-user-error-not-ai-disinformation

When It Comes to Vaccines and Autism, It Is User Error Not AI Disinformation

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (298+ words) But don't take my word for it. Ask Chat GPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot whether vaccines cause autism. Each replies no and provides the evidence to back the conclusion. Published evaluationsof chatbot vaccine answers reach the same result, rating default…...

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aei. org > technology-and-innovation > numbers-seashells-and-social-media-new-case-sheds-light-on-comeys-threat-indictment

Numbers, Seashells, and Social Media: New Case Sheds Light on Comey's Threat Indictment

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (217+ words) Last month, the numbers "86 47" mysteriously appeared in the National Mall's grass. A White House spokesperson quickly responded that "anyone who engages in or endorses political violence or assassination culture must be condemned in the harshest terms possible." The US Department…...

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aei. org > economics > the-dollar-safe-haven-demand-and-the-iran-war

The Dollar, Safe-Haven Demand, and the Iran War

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (302+ words) In this note, we assess whether the dollar's rise'at the conflict's start'was'owed'to its safe-haven status or to higher oil prices. 'The short answer: both. 'We also show that the most recent rise in the dollar'was owed'to neither its safe-haven status…...

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aei. org > economics > ais-steady-compounding

AI's Steady Compounding

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (218+ words) Three things: First, whatever might be happening with benchmark performance and frontier model release, prediction markets aren't suggesting the Singularity is nigh, or at least not more nigh than it was back in January. Third, it remains early days as…...

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aei. org > foreign-and-defense-policy > were-letting-china-steal-our-future

We're Letting China Steal Our Future

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (376+ words) Last week, Anthropic accused Alibaba of'illicitly extracting AI capabilities'by training its inferior model on Anthropic's superior model. This is hardly the first such accusation. In February,'Open AI made a similar claim about Deep Seek. In April, there was a…...

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