Artificial intelligence
Stupid AI: The Omar angle
The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman covers a story that hits close to home and that you would be unlikely to find anywhere else: “‘A False Claim That Has Been Repeatedly Debunked’: Top AI Platforms Flatly Deny That…
Does Section 230 protect AI?
We can thank Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act for much of our freedom to communicate online. It enabled the rise of search engines, social media, and countless platforms that make our modern internet a…
Fix the AI electricity ‘crisis’ by unleashing market forces
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is causing an AI power crisis, as the electricity demands of massive AI data centers are straining existing power grids and outpacing the development of new energy sources. This has…
Data centers use lots of electricity. This bill would let them go off the grid.
Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in some areas is already…
These companies could use AI to make energy cheaper—if the government lets them
Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to halve electricity prices within 18 months of taking office. With more than half of that period now elapsed, it seems that the president will fall well short of his goal. In…
The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you would expect. Maybe worse.
Sometimes you can tell a bill will be really bad just from its title. So it goes with The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine Intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American…
No, AI Data Centers Are Not Driving Up Electricity Costs
A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of electricity to power artificial intelligence, and ordinary households are paying the price. It's a tidy narrative with a villain,…
Review: Tron: Ares Reminds Us That Artificial Intelligence Is Not the Enemy
Will a hyperadvanced AI be a danger to humanity? That's nothing compared to the threat posed by military contractors. That's the implicit conclusion of Tron: Ares, the third installment in the series that began with…
The Teamsters want to keep transportation costs higher
"I want to protect the jobs of a narrow constituency so that I can win reelection" is not a winning campaign slogan, so politicians insist they're protecting you instead. That's the tactic Sen. John…
Bernie Sanders wants to pause new data centers to stop the economy from growing too much
The United States is leading a global data center boom. Investors are plowing some $7 trillion into the infrastructure necessary to support AI development, with 40 percent of that investment happening here in the United…
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