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Making AI policy: Are we falling behind or rushing in?

Making AI policy: Are we falling behind or rushing in?

Update: 2025-08-20
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As the next AI cycle begins, state and national governments are trying to keep up. And AI policy now matters for energy, health, education, foreign, and economic development policy as well. What can we learn from the early AI legislation? Chinnu Parinandi finds that partisan alignments and institutional capacity shape where and how consumer protection versus economic development AI policies appear in the states. Heonuk Ha finds an AI boom in congressional legislation with key thematic clusters—from innovation and security to data governance and healthcare.
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Making AI policy: Are we falling behind or rushing in?

Making AI policy: Are we falling behind or rushing in?

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