Generative artificial intelligence systems could unlock US productivity growth, but concerns about safety and economic dislocation might limit their potential. As a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Automation and the US Workforce, AEI Economic Policy Studies Director Michael R. Strain contributed to a new report exploring what policymakers must do to ensure AI transforms the American workforce for the better.

The Republican Party has traditionally embraced the potential of scientific and technological innovation, but the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services signals a profound shift in the character of the American right. Writing in The New York Times, Director of AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy M. Anthony Mills assesses the future of science policy in a more populist and distrustful second Trump administration.

President-elect Donald Trump has been so effective at mobilizing distrust of the scientific and public health establishment precisely because too many of these experts have prioritized a left-wing equity agenda at the expense of their core mission. Practicing psychiatrist and AEI Senior Fellow Sally Satel explores how identity politics threatens patients’ health.

Similarly, the overwhelmingly left-leaning views of US university faculty have turned too many institutions of higher education into vehicles for political advocacy. In part two of a five-part series on the politicization of the American university, AEI Nonresident Senior Fellow and Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder Roger Pielke Jr. documents the scope and costs of this ideological bias.

However, it would be a mistake to respond to this crisis of trust by reshaping American institutions for right-wing political purposes. Writing in The Atlantic, AEI Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Director Kori Schake warns that Trump’s plans to use the military to advance domestic policy will endanger the armed forces’ ability to perform their core missions.