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Adam Thierer

@adamthierer
36 posts
2026-03-05
If your conception of human flourishing involves constantly erecting barriers to tool-building, then you don't really believe in letting humans flourish. A truly “Pro-Human” agenda does not foreclose opportunities or the freedom to improve our lives using new technologies. [image]
2026-03-05 View on X
NBC News

Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration

An eclectic group including Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Richard Branson, Ralph Nader, Susan Rice and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu signed the letter.

2026-02-12
no matter what the balance of content is on Apple's platform, or how biased one might believe it to be, to suggest that DC bureaucrats should should be in charge of dictating “fairness” on private platforms is just Big Government thuggery at its worst and a massively
2026-02-12 View on X
Financial Times

US FTC chair asks Tim Cook to review Apple News' ToS and curation, citing allegations that it promotes “left-wing” outlets and suppresses conservative sources

US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show

2025-12-13
new Trump executive order on artificial intelligence signed addressing the need for a coherent national approach to avoid a patchwork of conflicting, costly state and local regulatory policies:
2025-12-13 View on X
Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

here is my @RSI rapid response analysis of President Trump's new executive order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” I argue that, until Congress acts to develop a more harmonized approach to federal-state AI governance, this new EO can help [image]
2025-12-13 View on X
Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

new Trump executive order on artificial intelligence signed addressing the need for a coherent national approach to avoid a patchwork of conflicting, costly state and local regulatory policies:
2025-12-13 View on X
Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligir...

2025-12-12
new Trump executive order on artificial intelligence signed addressing the need for a coherent national approach to avoid a patchwork of conflicting, costly state and local regulatory policies:
2025-12-12 View on X
Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …

2025-11-19
An Open Letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis on AI Policy Respectfully, Governor DeSantis, you are opening the door to let Gavin Newsom and Zohran Mamdani run America's AI marketplace and decimate our nation's ability to counter Chinese advances in the rising AI Cold War...
2025-11-19 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says the US needs a “Federal Standard” to govern AI oversight instead of “a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes” or China will catch up

President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence …

2025-10-22
this new letter is a straightforward call for the Precautionary Principle to be applied to advanced computation / AI. A decade ago, I wrote an entire book about why this would be a disaster for civilization. Here's a short updated summary of my book: https://www.civitasinstitute.org/ ...
2025-10-22 View on X
NBC News

Prince Harry and 800+ public figures sign a Future of Life Institute statement urging a ban on AI superintelligence development until it can be deployed safely

The call, signed by Nobel laureates, ex-military leaders and public figures worldwide, seeks a ban on research that could create machines smarter than people.

2025-05-19
outstanding reporting from @mims on the rapidly expanding field of brain-computer interfaces. Incredibly exciting things are happening that will improve lives. [FYI, the interactive graphics in this story are incredible. This is what great technology journalism looks like.] [image]
2025-05-19 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at Neuralink and other brain-computer interface startups, as the number of people with brain implants is set to double from ~100 in the next 12 months

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal :

2025-05-09
During today's Senate Commerce Committee on “Winning the AI Race,” @SenLummis asked representatives of leading AI developers about “a patchwork regulatory framework and how that could impact our competitiveness” if “significantly burdensome” state AI mandates proliferate. “I [image]
2025-05-09 View on X
Washington Post

Senate hearing: Sam Altman says that requiring government approval to release AI would be “disastrous” for the US' lead in AI, a reversal from his 2023 comments

Washington Post :

2024-09-16
it's funny that it took a resignation announcement for Breton to finally stop posting photos of himself with every post here. 😂 Anyway, good riddance to one of the most anti-innovation, anti-free speech bureaucrats the modern world has ever seen.
2024-09-16 View on X
Reuters

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees Big Tech regulation, says he is stepping down over a rift with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

Thierry Breton of France stepped down as a member of the European Commission on Monday and will no longer be his country's candidate …

2024-09-12
finally getting around to reading through the Draghi report on declining European tech competitiveness. I've spent the last 15 years making this simple point highlighted here in multiple books, papers, chapters, and essays, so I was pleased to see the report acknowledge the [image]
2024-09-12 View on X
Bloomberg

A 397-page EC report, released shortly before the CJEU's verdicts against Apple and Google, says the EU's competition enforcement can be “harmful to innovation”

I don't think this requires further comments. … Jonatan Tylsgaard Larsen : A challenging yet liberating read.  Finally, someone has tied up the loose ends.  And it reflects exactly...

2024-09-04
It is absolutely insane that our government is at war with Nvidia and many of America's leading innovators, threatening to undermine our global competitive advantage in AI as China and other nations look to catch up. This is myopic, dangerous public policy thinking.
2024-09-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the US DOJ sent subpoenas to Nvidia and others, seeking evidence that Nvidia violated antitrust laws by making it harder to switch suppliers and more

- Department also sent subpoenas to third parties in case  — Nvidia has built a dominant position in AI computing

2024-08-27
you gotta really appreciate the chutzpah of a guy who has spent the last decade effectively evading NHTSA bureaucrats on AV regs declaring that he's a long-time advocate of AI safety. 😂 Musk has also repeatedly called AI an existential threat to humanity while simultaneously
2024-08-27 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says that, “all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill”, and saying so is “a tough call”

Always B — Be C — Ctalking your book Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : this will create some interesting divided loyalties in Silicon Valley 👀 Sean Durkin / @seandurkinsf : @DanHendryck...

2024-05-03
California is considering a new #AI bill (SB 1047) that is “one of the most far-reaching and potentially destructive technology measures being considered today,” as I argue in this new @RSI analysis. https://www.rstreet.org/...
2024-05-03 View on X
@scott_wiener

[Thread] California State Senator Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill, SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI's competitors” and open-source AI

Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener :

California's SB-1047 makes hypothetical worst-case thinking the basis of #AI regulation. Only the largest current tech companies would likely be able to handle the bill's compliance costs and liability threats. Smaller developers (especially #opensource) would be decimated by... [image]
2024-05-03 View on X
@scott_wiener

[Thread] California State Senator Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill, SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI's competitors” and open-source AI

Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener :

2024-04-30
This is an important @asteriskmgzn article by Tim Lee on the sorry state of tech journalism. I encourage you to read it. The TMZ-ization of tech reporting has become a distressing reality. Tabloid-like sensationalism now dominates over deep reporting. Much of the best technical...
2024-04-30 View on X
Asterisk

Tech journalism is often characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research; publishers hesitate to invest in nuanced reporting without a clear ROI

A huge proportion of tech journalism is characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research.  Can we fix it?

2024-01-26
watching this #TechSummitAI and can't believe how one-sided this agenda is. The first panel is just an all-out attack on Nvidia & Amazon with zero serious responses thus far. It's #antitrust doomerism on steroids.
2024-01-26 View on X
New York Times

The US FTC opens a probe into investments by Microsoft in OpenAI and by Amazon and Google in Anthropic, to assess how the deals alter the competitive landscape

The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.

2023-08-16
with industrial policy, “Politics always takes over,” said Gary Clyde Hufbauer. As the 2024 election season heats up, he predicts, the program will become “less on chips, and more on creating happy stories for job creation.” 🎯 https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-08-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US Commerce Department forms a team of financiers from Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, KKR, and other Wall Street firms to help allocate $39B in chip subsidies

Talent from Goldman Sachs, KKR and Blackstone will help determine how $39 billion in semiconductor chip subsidies are allocated

2023-07-10
over at @techdirt, @mmasnick explains how, “We're Going Down A Very Dangerous Path With #AI Regulation, Despite Better Options.” He warns of “legislation that just locks in the big players and stifles the smaller, more innovative ones.”👉🏼https:// www.techdirt.com/...
2023-07-10 View on X
Techdirt

AI rules proposed by Chuck Schumer for the US and by the EU may shut more creative and innovative startups out of the market and harm AI tool development

It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools. Twitter: @rsi , @katharinakoern1 , and @adamthier...