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Advising Policymakers
ITIF provides policy expertise to governments around the world, frequently testifying and filing public comments for official hearings, inquiries, and regulatory proceedings.
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May 3, 2024
Comments to the Competition Bureau Canada Regarding AI and Competition
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May 2, 2024
Comments for the California Law Review Commission Study of Antitrust Law Regarding Single-Firm Conduct and Concentration
While ITIF applauds the Commission for its efforts to evaluate the adequacy of California’s competition laws and consider possible changes, this comment highlights concerns with both the single-firm and concentration reports, and specifically regarding their respective legal and economic findings.
May 2, 2024
Comments to Brazil’s Finance Ministry Regarding Digital Markets Regulation
As Brazil crafts its own Digital Markets Act in the mold of the EU’s, it should be aware of the potential shortcomings and unsubstantiated advantages associated with such wide-ranging economic regulation within the digital market landscape.
April 30, 2024
Amicus Brief to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in the Case of Minnesota Telecom Alliance v. FCC
Brief of the International Center for Law & Economics and ITIF as amici curiae in support of petitioners and setting aside the Commission’s Order. The digital discrimination rule the FCC issued in its order is inconsistent with the IIJA. It is so expansive as to claim regulatory authority over major political and economic questions, and it is arbitrary and capricious.
April 29, 2024
Comments to the Department of Commerce Regarding the Use of US IaaS for Malicious Cyber Activities
There are fundamental flaws in this proposed regulation. If the Biden administration does not revise or rescind these problematic provisions, it will create new trade and cybersecurity issues for U.S. cloud providers and put the U.S. cloud computing industry at a competitive disadvantage.
April 29, 2024
Comments to OMB on Responsible AI Procurement
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.
April 25, 2024
Letter in Support of the “The Future of AI Innovation Act”
This legislation lays out a proactive agenda to foster responsible AI development and deployment in the United States.
April 10, 2024
Testimony to FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Regarding “Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet”
There is no more important broadband policy goal than realizing the benefits of connectivity for all Americans. The draft item’s decision to reclassify broadband as a Title II service is counterproductive to those values, and an FCC that prioritizes connectivity and the public interest would not adopt it.
April 2, 2024
Comments to Canada’s Department of Finance Regarding Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentives
By changing the tax credit to be quasi-incremental, unifying the rates between small and large businesses, and simplifying the filing process, the government will be able to incentivize private R&D spending more effectively.
March 27, 2024
Comments to NTIA on Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models With Widely Available Model Weights
U.S. policymakers should learn lessons from past debates about dual-use technologies, such as encryption, and refrain from imposing restrictions on foundation models with widely available model weights (i.e. “open models”) because such policies would not only be ultimately ineffective at addressing risk, but they would slow innovation, reduce competition, and decrease U.S. competitiveness.