The United States has 24–36 months before the Chinese AI industry escapes its compute constraints and can start exporting at scale to global markets. In a new working paper, Ryan Fedasiuk and Satvik Pendyala think through how the US can best allocate its own constrained compute resources in this window to entrench an “American AI technology stack” in key allied and swing markets capable of resisting Chinese influence.
Rapid technological advancement and shrinking populations are pushing every military in the world toward embracing lethal, autonomous weaponry. In a new AEI report, John G. Ferrari and Dillon Prochnicki provide a comprehensive assessment of how the US should approach acquiring, developing, and implementing these capabilities.
Most prospective college students think tuition is unfairly high, as the cost of college has risen more than the cost of virtually every other consumer good and service. In a new report, Preston Cooper explains how price opacity, driven by expanding government financial aid, has given colleges the market power to charge students substantially more.
August marks the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the 1996 welfare reform law, which attacked government dependency by strengthening work requirements and ending individual cash entitlements. Matt Weidinger, who was a primary congressional staff author of the legislation, surveys the legislation’s remarkable success in increasing earnings for low-income Americans while substantially decreasing welfare caseloads and child poverty.
