The Reel Deal: Our White Papers in Video Form
Plus, learn about the near regulation of Macs and its implications
Research in Video Form
We write papers, but we also want to communicate our ideas via different media like video. ICYMI, our launch video describes the mission and vision of the Abundance Institute.
Our first “video white paper” on AI policy related issues describes the time when the US government almost regulated Macs out of existence in the name of national security. It’s a case study for the folly of writing computing power standards into law.
Yesterday, our newest “video white paper” went live and it features the amazing
describing the age-old battle between “dynamism” and “stasis” or the “technocrats vs innovators.” She offers a new way of thinking about battles for the future outside of left vs right.But that’s not all! We have additional videos on energy issues, both long and short form, at our YouTube channel. Check it and out and smash those subscribe and like buttons, as they say.
In the News
Chris Koopman had a piece in Coin Telegraph explaining the implications of two significant recent Supreme Court decisions, Loper Bright and Corner Post, on the regulation of emerging technologies.
Brendan Bordelon and Josh Sisco of Politico quoted Neil in their take on the FTC and Justice Department's antitrust probe of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI
In a Thursday statement, Neil Chilson, who served as the FTC’s acting chief technologist during the Trump administration, called the AI marketplace “vibrant, dynamic and competitive.” He said antitrust regulators “might be better served focusing their resources and scrutiny on regulatory barriers to competition that are making consumers pay more for health care and housing.”
Neil Chilson and Stafford Palmieri Sievert wrote an oped on Utah's approach to AI in the Daily Herald
Neil joined Jackson Walker’s Future Ready Business podcast to discuss how the US can
J. Storrs Hall's Nanotech piece was linked in Not Boring's Weekly Dose of Optimism
I was quoted in The National News discussing teens and social media
Taylor Barkley, director of public policy with the Abundance Institute, a non-profit dedicated to emerging technologies, was critical of the idea.
"The surgeon general is correct that American teens are facing a mental health crisis, but requiring a warning label on social media won't solve these issues," he said. "It will instead create new avenues for government censorship."
"More effective and civil liberty preserving solutions are as the surgeon general describes elsewhere: all of the community, starting with parents and caregivers, equipping teens for success via education, moderate use, and treating teens facing mental health issues," he added.
Neil's Reason piece on EA-influenced legislation went live and it got the attention of the Center for AI Policy which sent a letter to the editor because his piece was “deeply misleading.”
They are products of a radical E.A. faction that, in its fervor to regulate away a perceived threat, is willing to blindly empower governments through unaccountable agencies, vague requirements, presumption of guilt, and unchecked emergency powers.