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The problems with California’s pending AI copyright legislation (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 07/08/2025 - 12:46Copyright alone cannot protect the future of creative work (Brookings)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 05/13/2025 - 15:58Building regional capacity for AI safety and security in Africa (Brookings)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 05/13/2025 - 15:57How AI can support teachers in Latin America (Brookings)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 04/15/2025 - 16:59Recognizing the (un)Hidden Figures in AI (Brookings)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 04/01/2025 - 16:38Four recent trends in US public infrastructure spending (Brookings)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 04/01/2025 - 10:50
Not ‘deregulation’ but heavy-handed regulation at the Trump FCC
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has cagily created a new and coercive technique for operating outside the agency’s established statutes and procedures to attack corporate decisions he and Donald Trump do not like. That technique is to use its powers—or the threat thereof—to micromanage the activities of companies without needing to follow the niceties of commission votes and judicial review.

When it comes to understanding AI’s impact on elections, we’re still working in the dark
Ahead of the 2024 U.S. election, there was widespread fear that generative artificial intelligence (AI) presented an unprecedented threat to democracy.

Congress is debating stricter SNAP and Medicaid work requirements—but research shows they don’t work
As congressional Republicans begin to fill in the details of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda, one proposal is expanded work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid.