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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Have Your Data and Use It Too: A Federal Initiative for Protecting Privacy while Advancing AI

A proposal to address privacy concerns surrounding the growing use of artificial intelligence.

04.26.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
A National Strategy on Privacy and Civil Liberties

A proposal to institute meaningful protections against government surveillance in the United States.

04.26.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Ambitious, Achievable, and Sustainable: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Research Leadership

A blueprint to restore the foundation for U.S. competitiveness by embarking on a new growth trajectory for federal research spending.

04.25.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
A Civic Research Initiative to Transform State and Local Government

A proposed federal initiative would expand the emerging field of civic research as “R&D for state and local government.”

04.24.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Establishing a National Manufacturing Foundation

Establishing a National Manufacturing Foundation to restore critical industrial commons, ensuring what is invented here can be made here.

04.24.20 | 30 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Making Computer Science Education Universal for All Students

The next administration should establish a national initiative to accelerate the implementation of rigorous computer science education for preschool through 12th grade students in the United States.

04.23.20 | 16 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Closing Critical Gaps from Lab to Market

Forging a more effective commercialization pipeline to enhance U.S. long-term economic competitiveness and innovation leadership.

04.23.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Modernizing Radio Spectrum Management

Rethinking spectrum policy through a set of targeted reforms can maximize productive use of the radio spectrum.

04.05.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Smart Cities Technologies: Driving Economic Growth and Community Resilience

A proposal for the federal government to help communities leverage smart-city technologies to help address social and economic challenges.

03.31.20 | 13 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
House explores the future of work at the close of the decade

Just before Congress left for the holidays, the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment held a hearing examining ways to prepare for the future of work. This has become a hot topic this year, particularly as presidential candidate Andrew Yang has incorporated it into his platform and elevated it onto the national debate stage. The […]

01.06.20 | 4 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Artificial Intelligence and National Security, and More from CRS

The 2019 defense authorization act directed the Secretary of Defense to produce a definition of artificial intelligence (AI) by August 13, 2019 to help guide law and policy. But that was not done. Therefore “no official U.S. government definition of AI yet exists,” the Congressional Research Service observed in a newly updated report on the subject. But plenty […]

12.02.19 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Limits on Free Expression: An International View

While many countries recognize freedom of speech as a fundamental value, every country also imposes some legal limits on free speech. A new report from the Law Library of Congress surveys the legal limitations on free expression in thirteen countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Germany, France, New Zealand, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and […]

07.28.19 | 1 min read
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