Adam Thierer
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- Sep 28, 2026
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The Sanders-Casar “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act” is AI Authoritarianism - R Street Institute (opens the original)
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Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) introduced the “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,” a sweeping new bill that envisions comprehensive government control over AI and advanced computation. The measure contains some of the most radical interventions ever proposed in any piece of proposed legislation in American history. If enacted, it would have extremely destructive and dangerous consequences for innovation, competition, economic growth, global competitiveness,
Let People Prosper: Data Center Wars and the Future of AI Policy - R Street Institute (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Let People Prosper Show, Adam Thierer joins host Dr. Vance Ginn, where they discuss the growing battles over data centers, electricity and infrastructure, AI’s impact on workers, competition with China, age verification and online safety, and the growing push for government regulation of emerging technologies. Together, Vance and Adam also explore a fundamental question: Should America respond to rapid technological change with more political control, or preserve the freed
Podcast: AI Governance and Open Models: Who Controls the Pace of Innovation? - R Street Institute (opens the original)
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R Street Institute Resident Senior Fellow Adam Thierer joined AEI’s Shane Tews and Georgia Tech professor Milton Mueller for a discussion on the future of artificial intelligence governance, open models and the role government should play in determining the pace of AI innovation. As employees at several leading AI companies call for greater government and international oversight of frontier AI models, policymakers face a difficult question: Who should decide when a new model is safe enough to re
Drone Delivery: Faster, Cleaner, Cheaper ... & Stuck in a Regulatory Limbo - R Street Institute (opens the original)
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Delivery drones have long promised faster, cleaner and more efficient ways to move everything from groceries and takeout to medicine and other essential goods. Yet more than a decade after companies began predicting widespread drone delivery, the technology remains surprisingly limited in the United States. In a new StosselTV segment, R Street’s Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation, joins John Stossel to discuss why. Thierer has long studied how emerging technologie
Washington's strategy to fight the threat of Chinese AI is still missing in action. - R Street Institute (opens the original)
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For all the noise, and all the money and national security interests riding on the outcome, Washington has not settled on a coherent plan. “We’re now in the worst of all worlds,” Adam Thierer of the R Street Institute told WP Intelligence. “Very arbitrary ad hoc governance of artificial intelligence; complete congressional dysfunctionalism leading to absolutely no statutory guidance; 1,800 state bills, many of which implicate frontier model regulation; and, meanwhile, we’ve got an open source th
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