Publications

Technologies and tech companies are accused of creating a myriad of societal problems. This book exposes them as mostly myths, falsehoods, and exaggerations.

OMB should support the development of voluntary standard terms for AI contracts to make procurement more efficient and expand access to federal contracts to as diverse and large a pool of vendors as possible so federal agencies can access the best systems.

Digital literacy is now a necessary skill on par with the ability to read or write. Yet, we have no clear system of measuring this type of literacy rate or comprehensive dataset that tells us where the U.S. population stands. Instead, there’s a piecemeal landscape of measuring digital literacy. Studies often cover members of particular groups rather than the population at large, and without a consensus on the measurement of universal digital literacy rates, we have no clear way of taking a data-driven approach to the problem—which is necessary if we want to solve it.

As demographic change and aging populations in many Western countries entail higher relative health-care burdens, AI’s support in diagnosis, drug development, and health-care operations may serve as a much-needed remedy.

This legislation lays out a proactive agenda to foster responsible AI development and deployment in the United States.

The past few years have seen a remarkable rise in the quality and quantity of deepfakes.

Innovation plays a critical role in improving public health and in overcoming global health challenges. The call for LATAM Health Champions, which ran from February 5 to March 5, 2024, received more than 60 applications proposing innovative health solutions to a wide range of health challenges. Here, the top 20 are highlighted.

A recent working paper found that women in Latin America and the Caribbean with internet access had a 5 percent lower rate of job pre-pandemic job loss and about a 4 percent increase in their labor force participation rate than those without internet.

Global data and technology governance will be challenging without cooperation on cloud trustworthiness. Policymakers should avoid simplistic assessments based on nationality and instead develop more holistic assessments based on legal and technical criteria.

The word “innovation” appears a total of 97 times and “productivity” 63 times in Canada’s 2024 federal budget, and many measures targeted towards innovation and productivity reflect that focus. However, some of the funds being disbursed are tangential at best to actually addressing Canada’s declining productivity and supporting Canada’s innovation ecosystem.