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The Brookings Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) is a Brookings Institution policy and research center focused on how technology innovation—including artificial intelligence—interacts with governance, economic development, and regulation in the United States and globally. CTI’s stated mission emphasizes producing research that informs public debate and policymaking: identifying technology innovation developments and trends, developing and publicizing best practices for stakeholders, briefing policymakers on actions needed to improve innovation, and improving public and media understanding of technology innovation.
CTI is housed within Brookings’s Governance Studies program and operates as a convening and publishing platform that includes TechTank (a Brookings blog) and the TechTank Podcast, as well as additional initiatives such as the AI Equity Lab and related AI governance convenings.
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Opinion by Martin Mayer, Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution
The Clogged Arteries of a Troubled EconomyChina Chooses Growth Today, Reckoning TomorrowChina Chooses Growth Today, Reckoning Tomorrow, Asian Wall Street Journal, September 30, 1998, by Nicholas R. Lardy. In an attempt to achieve its 8% annual growth target, China has embarked on what the leadership describes as a program of increased i
Kosovo Option: Conditional SurrenderKosovo Option: Conditional Surrender, The Washington Post, September 25, 1998, by Alan J. Kuperman. While Bob Dole is justifiably outraged and saddened by the plight of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo [""We Must Stop the Kosovo Terror,"" Opinion, Sept. 14], h
Strengthening the World Financial System is Easier Said than DoneU.S. Policy Is the Option That Works Iraq: Sanctions are our main goal since the other goals, including removing Saddam Hussein, are not achievableU.S. Policy Is the Option That Works, The Los Angeles Times, September 18, 1998, by Alan J. Kuperman. Scott Ritter's resignation from the U.N.'s inspection team in Iraq has sparked a round of recrimination in Washington that stems from a combination
Our Misguided South Asia Nuclear PolicyOur Misguided South Asia Nuclear Policy, The Washington Post, September 13, 1998, by Richard N. Haass and Morton H. Halperin. More than three months after India and Pakistan shocked the world with a series of nuclear weapons tests, it is time for the
Democrats' Dilemma: Step in It, or Throw It?Opinion by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in The Washington Post, September 13, 1998
Democratization Isn't an Overnight ProcessDemocratization Isn't an Overnight Process, The Los Angeles Times, August 31, 1998, by Catharin Dalpino. Although the precise mathematical results of the Cambodian election last month remain clouded, the political outcome is clear. A plurality for Hu
Root Out, but Don't Bomb Out, TerrorismRoot Out, but Don't Bomb Out, Terrorism, The Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1998, by Francis M. Deng. Fighting terrorism is admittedly a complex and difficult enterprise with serious political and moral dilemmas. Obviously, terrorists must be punished
Tax-Cutting FrenzyOpinion by William Gale, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
This Time a Message; Next Time Get HimThis Time a Message; Next Time Get Him, Newsday, August 24, 1998, by Michael E. O'Hanlon. THURSDAY'S U.S. cruise-missile attacks against terrorist camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons production site in Sudan seem to have been a succ
Tom Wheeler argues that AI oversight cannot rely solely on industry self-regulation and discusses what oversight would require in practice (including standards, measurement, and disclosure).
The AI Equity Lab: Can communities mitigate their rising concerns about data centers?CTI hosts a conversation focused on how communities can manage and respond to data center development concerns, connecting community, economic development, and technology experts.
New tools for mapping a fragmented AI governance landscapeA CTI-linked discussion/analysis presents “tools” approaches to mapping and addressing fragmentation in AI governance and discusses value and limitations of the mapping concept as implemented in work associated with AI governance cooperation.
How the US and China can cooperate to reduce urgent AI risksMark MacCarthy and Carl Schonander argue for a practical, technically oriented approach to U.S.-China AI risk-reduction dialogue rather than an arms-control-style negotiation.
Borrowed expertise: Why AI’s productivity boom may not survive the generation that built itNiam Yaraghi contends that near-term AI productivity gains may depend on expertise accumulated before AI deployment, potentially limiting longer-run innovation dynamics.
David M. Klaus and Mark MacCarthy discuss the practical enforceability of a “Ratepayer Protection Pledge” framework for shielding non-data-center customers from data-center-driven electricity rate increases.