Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation appreciates the opportunity to comment on Reforming the High-Cost Program for an All-IP Future. The Federal Communications Commission should eliminate legacy high-cost support mechanisms and allow A-CAM support to expire without extension. These programs have achieved their original objectives, while changes in the broadband marketplace have substantially reduced the policy rationale for continuing them.

Every wave of new technology triggers a legislative reflex to “protect the children.” In seeking solutions to real or alleged harms to children on social media, policymakers have turned to flawed policies—such as age verification and outright bans—that cut children off from social media’s benefits instead of actually targeting its risks. Legislators are now recycling this playbook for artificial intelligence chatbots, or systems that process user inputs to respond with simulated conversation. But the playbook doesn’t work for either AI or chatbots.

For the past several years, Congress has been locked in a debate over how to safeguard Americans’ data privacy.

Productive use of the airwaves is essential to not only everyday wireless services but also national leadership in wireless technologies. Therefore, technological and policy mechanisms that enhance the productivity of spectrum are important pieces of the national economy. Often, however, decades of accreted allocation decisions coupled with technological changes have left bands in arrangements less productive than they could be, and changed allocations could enable greater commercial spectrum access and thus more productive wireless applications that benefit consumers and innovation.

Artificial intelligence adoption has accelerated rapidly in recent years, most visibly through consumer-facing applications such as chatbots and such generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. These technologies are reshaping how people work, communicate, and access information. Less visible but equally consequential is the emergence of wearable AI, which trains on spatial data—including depth, motion, object recognition, and environmental mapping—to interact with the physical world in real time.

Amid Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon over the use of its AI systems, 67% of Americans say private technology companies have a responsibility to set limits on how their products are used, even when the government disagrees.