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Pelican Institute Releases AI Toolkit
New questions surrounding artificial intelligence emerge daily: What is AI? Should states be [...]
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Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government
In their report “Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government,” [...]
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Louisiana’s Comeback Agenda
It’s time to write Louisiana’s comeback story. For too long, poor public policy decisions have [...]
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Regulatory Sandboxes: Where Innovation Happens
Regulatory sandboxes are a novel way to govern innovative companies, allowing them to test their [...]
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Tech Policy Toolkit
The technology sector is playing an increasing role in our day-to-day lives as consumers, and it’s [...]
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REPORT: The State of Broadband in Louisiana and Mississippi
As COVID-19 continues to affect much of the world, people’s daily activities have shifted online. [...]
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Drones in Louisiana: Helping the Pelican State Take Flight
The Louisiana economy is struggling, with 155,000 missing jobs in the state since the start of 2020 [...]
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[REPORT] Medicine in a Digital World
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many paradigms of daily life. While the necessary adjustments [...]
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Sandboxes will Bring Innovation to Louisiana
Sandboxes are alternative regulatory frameworks for companies with innovative products or business [...]
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Willing and Label: The Free Market Is Willing to Help Families—Will a Warning Label Stand in the Way?
Labels can be profoundly helpful in many instances. Nutrition information, brands, and medicine [...]
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Silver Linings, Not Silver Bullets
At the end of June, the Supreme Court of the United States reached its decision in Free Speech [...]
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This Independence Day, Let’s Reject European-Style Regulation
249 years ago, when the Declaration of Independence was signed, our founding fathers committed to [...]
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The Verdict on AI
Few practices have higher stakes for human error than that of criminal justice. An oversight or [...]
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Work Smarter
Three things in life are certain; death, taxes, and work—but artificial intelligence (AI) skeptics [...]
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BEAD by Example: The Next Chapter in the Broadband Saga
The federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program has lived many lives since its [...]
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When Regulation Clashes with Innovation
Europe stared a technological revolution in the eye and chose regulation. As artificial [...]
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Memento Moratorium
Nestled within the Energy and Commerce section of the sweeping budget reconciliation bill is a [...]
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You Can Drive My Car: Self-Driving Cars Save Lives
Few things remind you of your mortality more than a trip in the passenger seat of a bad driver. [...]
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Antitrust Crusade Rolls On
Much has changed since President Trump assumed office just over 100 days ago. Despite the upheaval [...]
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States Move to Regulate AI in Medicine: When the Legislative Cure is Worse Than the Disease
The national mood toward AI is mixed. Some are deeply hopeful about the promises of the technology, [...]
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The State of AI
Stanford University’s annual AI Index Report provides a helpful gauge for the state of artificial [...]
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Fear and Loathing on the Jon Stewart Show
What began in 2021 as part of an infrastructure bill is now a glaring signifier of bureaucracy, red [...]
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Let the Loss be a Lesson
Age verification bills are popping up in legislatures around the country. While the stated purpose [...]
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In Everything, Moderation, Including Moderation: the Balance of Section 230
Since 1996, Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act has put in its 10,000 hours (and [...]
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