A “Washington-based Republican lawyer,” per @WSJ. President of @DigitalProInst. Senior Fellow on AI at @A1Policy.

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In ⁦@Newsweek⁩, ⁦@ZephyrTeachout⁩ & I write how the ⁦#TikTok case has hindered #BigTech's use of First Amendment doctrines. TL/DR: the 1A can no longer be used as a tool for them to smother our liberties or act with reckless abandon. newsweek.com/supreme-court-w…
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💯 We outlined this liability, in part, in our @A1Policy paper! Link: americafirstpolicy.com/issue…
JUST IN: FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson declares AI developers should be held liable for harmful actions carried out by their agents.
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🚨 The D.C. Circuit just ruled in favor of the Department of War in the Anthropic case. The court upheld DOW’s authority to designate Anthropic as a risk and rejected Anthropic’s constitutional claims. AFPI filed the only amicus brief in support of DOW in the case. 🇺🇸
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🚨 The D.C. Circuit just ruled in favor of the Department of War in the Anthropic case. The court upheld DOW’s authority to designate Anthropic as a risk and rejected Anthropic’s constitutional claims. AFPI filed the only amicus brief in support of DOW in the case. 🇺🇸
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Joel Thayer retweeted
Congrats to @joellthayer on writing the only amicus brief for the winning side.
The D.C. Circuit got it right. As @A1Policy argued in our amicus brief, no company should be able to dictate the terms of war, let alone a rich company with a clear ideological agenda that is developing technology as powerful as AI. That job is reserved for entities accountable to the American people, in this case the DOW not Anthropic.
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One of the leaders of the only amicus on the winning side of the dispute weighs in:
The D.C. Circuit got it right. As @A1Policy argued in our amicus brief, no company should be able to dictate the terms of war, let alone a rich company with a clear ideological agenda that is developing technology as powerful as AI. That job is reserved for entities accountable to the American people, in this case the DOW not Anthropic.
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The D.C. Circuit got it right. As @A1Policy argued in our amicus brief, no company should be able to dictate the terms of war, let alone a rich company with a clear ideological agenda that is developing technology as powerful as AI. That job is reserved for entities accountable to the American people, in this case the DOW not Anthropic.
The hammer of justice has smashed @AnthropicAI arguments. They are a Supply Chain Risk to the defense industrial base serving the @DeptofWar. Warfighters will sleep better knowing that no private company will insert their opinions in the chain of command. @SecWar was right!
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The D.C. Circuit has upheld @DeptofWar's decision to exclude Anthropic’s Claude from its supply chain based on risks to national security.
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The hammer of justice has smashed @AnthropicAI arguments. They are a Supply Chain Risk to the defense industrial base serving the @DeptofWar. Warfighters will sleep better knowing that no private company will insert their opinions in the chain of command. @SecWar was right!
The D.C. Circuit has upheld @DeptofWar's decision to exclude Anthropic’s Claude from its supply chain based on risks to national security.
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The DOJ might want to consult the CFAA….
OpenAI makes a lot of crimeware
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"Although artificial intelligence companies must build responsibly, regulatory advocates have an equal responsibility not to needlessly panic the public about the dangers of AI."
AI alarmists keep missing their own deadlines. Unemployment is 4.1%, not 10-20%. Radiologists are in demand, not obsolete. My new piece in @WashTimesOpEd on why the next round of doom forecasts deserves the same skepticism: washingtontimes.com/news/202…
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Libertarians have disappeared from American politics. Their think tanks and magazines are richly endowed but irrelevant, their ideas exhausted. What happened to champions of free markets and free people? ✍️ @ToryAnarchist Article | spectator.com/article/the-st…
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📰 FCC to Vote on Waiving NEPA Review for Space Ops “The draft order would find that space-based operations are not “major federal actions,” which is the legal trigger for NEPA review.” payloadspace.com/fcc-to-vote…
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LFG!
The Connected Vehicle Security Act has been growing strong bipartisan support. China cheats on trade and threatens our national security. We cannot allow its vehicles into our country.
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Good discussions today with @FCC commissioners on proposed reforms to its National Environmental Policy Act rules. Spurred by Congress's amendments to NEPA, @POTUS's EO 14514, and #SCOTUS's 2025 "course correction," the reforms will promote wireless infrastructure across America.
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What we need is an *actual* investigation, not the fake sci-fi story that METR put out about what happened. All we know is what OpenAI and a bunch of cult members want us to know. The CEO of Hugging Face does not believe the ghost story version.
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Unlike CNN’s forecast, I hope @AjitPai’s comes true.
It’s the end of CNN as we know it.
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20 years ago, the FCC stood up the agency’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. Great to join with so many of the Bureau’s leadership—past and present—today to recognize the group’s ongoing and important work.
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There are an endless number of panels on antitrust law in which well-paid lawyers and scholars discuss their carefully sculpted view that billionaires get to do whatever they want, usually including a Herb Hovenkamp cite.
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Every parent (and lawmaker) should read this from Brad Littlejohn @AmerCompass. He nails the core problem with the state of kids online safety: the 'digital vice industry' has unmediated access to childhood itself and uses our kids as the unpaid laborers to their harmful products. Essential read: nationalaffairs.com/publicat…"
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