As lawmakers of both major parties hustle to regulate their preferred villains, they're losing sight of the big picture. The possible gains to humanity from AI are enormous.
"Performance enhancements are actually, contrary to what many people think, not that dangerous," the Enhanced CEO tells Reason.
The National AI Policy Framework is a return to the administration's pro-AI position.
Government-backed biowearables could generate vast streams of personal health data with few legal safeguards.
And he's publishing the process so you can do it too.
Contrary to the claims of the not-in-my-backyard technophobes, all this growth comes with minimal environmental downsides.
Price controls and regulatory burdens make the market unattractive for pharmaceutical companies.
Delphi-2M was trained on the world's most comprehensive biomedical database with health information from over 400,000 people.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is an extreme proposal to effectively outlaw promising AI progress.
Excluding generative AI from Section 230 could stymie innovation and cut off consumers from useful tools.
The DATA Act, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton, would exempt electrical utilities from federal regulation if they don't touch the electrical grid.
Is this "the end of the climate hawk era"?
While Europe and Asia have had Stellest glasses for years, the FDA finally approved them for the U.S. in 2025.
Past societies tried to regulate their way to stability. But it came at a great cost.
Don't blame AI for your high electricity bill. Blame the politicians who are trying to take AI away.
When the media say the middle class is in decline, they're technically right—because people are getting richer.
The existence of options you don't personally enjoy is not a cultural failure; it's a luxury.
The socialist senator wants a moratorium on new data centers to slow the AI and robotics industries down.
Reason's Robby Soave and Elizabeth Nolan Brown go head to head with Emily Jashinsky and Ryan Grim from Breaking Points in a thought-provoking debate about Big Tech.
Only time will tell if the president's order achieves its stated purpose of checking state laws that threaten to stymie innovation.
Recent innovations could help address plastic pollution.
Countries like Canada and Germany are lining up to welcome companies and workers priced out by the H1-B price hike.
Without federal preemption, a regulatory thicket of state AI laws threatens to slow the technology's development.
Real industrial policy has been tried—in many countries, by governments of every ideology. It fails every time for the same reason.
The printing press helped build libraries that were impossibly large by ancient standards. That created its own new challenges.
The California congressman insists he's no Luddite, but his policy proposal suggests otherwise.
A Northwestern University clinical study found that generative AI sped up radiology documentation by 15.5 percent.
To fully realize human flourishing, America must embrace the future—not fear it.
"We've made enough energy for all the people in the West and north of the equator, but we just haven't finished the job," says the author of Deep Future.
The Microsoft co-founder recently penned a letter arguing that increasing global prosperity is the best way forward on the issue.
It is possible to be both skeptical of the supposed effectiveness of AI therapy and wary of sweeping state regulations.
The D.C. Superior Court found Empower still in contempt of court despite updating its software-as-a-service agreement and will reconvene in January.
Joel Mokyr has long made the case against technophobia, including in the pages of Reason.
The policy would slow innovation, reduce competitiveness, and leave American workers unprepared for the future.
The makers of this AI-powered robot promise greater precision and less pain.
Federalism works best when state-level policy experiments stay contained.
In a recent study, participants were paired with either a human or an AI debate opponent. The results confirm AI's power of persuasion.
The Finnish startup Solar Foods has received a "Generally Recognized as Safe" designation from the FDA.
Republican AI opponents sound an awful lot like Democrats.
Tens of thousands of people die each year in crashes where human error was the cause or a contributing factor.
Failure of imagination drives the bipartisan energy around busting so-called Big Tech monopolies.
A federal judge rejected the proposed structural remedies in the Google search engine monopoly case.
Many people prefer naturally produced over man-made. But isn't there something just as compelling about the stuff that thousands of people collaborated to make?
The factory has changed a lot, from making Model T parts to making Mustangs to assembling electric Ford F-150s.
For just $55 million, you can book a weeklong vacation on the International Space Station. It's not exactly an all-inclusive beach resort.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is modern, agile, and protected from political interference.
Power-hungry data centers, disappearing jobs, and billions of dollars in subsidies are fueling resentment. If developers and policymakers don’t change course, Americans may reject AI before it ever delivers on its most significant promises.
States keep banning lab-grown meat. Entrepreneurs keep innovating anyway.
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