Technology Policy Institute

🚨New Research Paper!🚨 TPI Distinguished Senior Fellow Robert Hahn and co-authors released today a new research paper, "A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change," download it here! https://policyimpacts.org/research/a-welfare-analysis-of-policies-impacting-climate-change/

Shoutout to our TPI Summer 2024 Interns! Skyler, Miranda, Annella are working on tribal broadband research, AI policy, space policy, broadband policy, major questions doctrine, antitrust litigation trackers! Thanks for joining us this summer!

🚨TPI Aspen Forum 2024 Panel!🚨 How Should We Regulate the Digital World? Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, EU AI Act; White House AI EO; UK, G7 nations, China! Register today! Aug 18-20, 2024 https://www.tpiaspenforum.tech/register

🚨TPI Aspen Forum 2024 Panel Announcement!🚨 The Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence with Timothy Bresnahan of Stanford, Carol Corrado of The Conference Board, Michael Rosenbaum of Arena Analytics, Hal Varian of Google, Scott Wallsten TPI

Check out TPI's new interactive tool, a Timeline of Major Antitrust Actions in the US and EU. This timeline highlights major antitrust actions in the US and EU, including lawsuits, fines, and more, https://www.preceden.com/timelines/1091159-timeline-of-major-antitrust-actions-in-the-us-and-eu/e7eaa20a3e8706a5

🚨TPI Aspen Forum 2024 Panel Announcement!🚨 "Antitrust: The Next Four Years" will feature Robert Crandall, Ginger Jin, Michael Katz, William Kovacic, Thomas Lenard ⛰️🥾

⛰️TPI Aspen Forum 2024: Panel Topics Revealed!📯 TPI is pleased to announce the release of the agenda Aug 18-20 at the St. Regis Aspen Resort in Aspen, CO. Agenda here! https://www.tpiaspenforum.tech/agenda

🚨New Podcast Episode!🚨 The Economics of AI: Prediction Machines and Their Impact with Ajay Agrawal , Professor at Univ. of Toronto's . Tune in! https://soundcloud.com/two-think-minimum/the-economics-of-ai-prediction-machines-and-their-impact-with-ajay-agrawal

🚨New Blog Post!🚨 For your poolside reading, go ahead and add Generative Deep Learning to the summer reading bag. It’s not a legal thriller or self-help book, but it will improve your thinking for fall policy discussions! https://techpolicyinstitute.org/publications/artificial-intelligence/summer-reading-ai-edition-a-review-of-generative-deep-learning-teaching-machines-to-paint-write-compose-and-play-by-david-foster-oreilly-second-edition/

🚨 New Podcast Episode!🚨 Ellen P. Goodman joins Two Think Minimum to discuss AI Accountability Policy and the NTIA's AI Accountability Policy Report. Tune in! https://soundcloud.com/two-think-minimum/ai-accountability-policy-with-ellen-goodman

will be Aug. 18-20, 2024 this summer! Mark your calendars! IMHO, the best policy conference of the summer ⛰️ 🥾 👒 🌻 https://www.tpiaspenforum.tech/

TPI's Podcast twothinkminimum.com is included in PlayerFM's Think Tank Podcast list! https://player.fm/podcasts/Think-Tank Check it out today

House Bill H.R.7528 on AI computer-generated comments and mass-comments in federal rulemakings is what Scott Wallsten discussed last fall in ! Read the piece, https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-may-soon-weigh-in-on-regulation-artificial-intelligence-agencies-public-comment-periods-766436ec & bill text here
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7528

TPI's TechHub is an exhibit hall where you can learn about new technology and meet the experts at TPI Aspen Forum 2024 on Aug. 18-20, 2024, register today! https://www.tpiaspenforum.tech/

🏆Huge congrats to Scott Wallsten and Jeff Prince!🏅 "How Much is Privacy Worth Around the World and Across Platforms?" was recognized as a Top 10 Most-Cited Paper! Dive into intriguing insights on global privacy values https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12481

🚨New Episode!🚨 Catherine Tucker of MIT Sloan on Competition Policy in an AI World: "We’re suddenly in this world... where we seem to have both high fixed costs and potentially high marginal costs" https://soundcloud.com/two-think-minimum/competition-policy-in-an-ai-world-with-catherine-tucker

this year will be our 15th annual summer policy conference! Aug. 18-20, 2024. Monday night dinner groups are a core part of the meeting. Register today! CLE credits! https://www.tpiaspenforum.tech/

Kitty says save the date for TPI Aspen Forum 2024! Early bird registration is now open. Our 15th annual summer conference will be Aug. 18-20, 2024. https://www.tpiaspenforum.tech/

🚨New post!🚨 "Reform the ACP" by Greg Rosston, Bradley Wimmer: Today, the Senate will hold a hearing on “The Future of Broadband Affordability.” The Affordability Connectivity Program (ACP) that provides subsidies for more than 20 million low-income households will expire in May. Read more! https://techpolicyinstitute.org/publications/broadband/digital-divide/reform-the-acp/

TPI's Graph of the Month: Share of Households with Access to at Least 2 Non-Satellite, Fixed Broadband Providers at Different Speeds charts growth at 3 speeds, before and after Form 477 and new Broadband Fabric collection methods!