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      <title><![CDATA[Defense and AI Leaders on Pentagon’s Attack on Anthropic]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/defense-and-ai-leaders-on-pentagon-s-attack-on-anthropic</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:52:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, I signed a letter expressing serious concern about the Pentagon's threatened designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. ***** Dear Chairman Wicker, Ranking Member Reed, Chairman Rogers, and Ranking Member Smith: We write as leaders in national security, business, civil society, and tec...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Learning from Utah’s AI Regulatory Sandbox]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:49:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Frontier AI systems are becoming more powerful by the month, and at a pace that seems to be  accelerating . However, from the standpoint of U.S. economic growth and competitiveness, our technical lead in AI only really matters to the extent that AI can diffuse into tangible, real-world applications....]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Bluesky Can Become More than Just Lib Twitter]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/how-bluesky-can-become-more-than-just-lib-twitter</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:25:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On December 11, 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey  announced  a bold new effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. It would be incubated within Twitter, but the ultimate goal of the project would be to “allow [Twitter] to access and contribute to a much larger corpus of pub...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mobilizing Talent for the Genesis Mission]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/mobilizing-talent-for-the-genesis-mission</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, I responded to the Department of Energy's Request for Information regarding how to mobilize talent for the Genesis Mission and develop an American workforce to advance AI for science and engineering. ***** Thank you for the opportunity to submit recommendations for mobilizing talent for the...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Virtue Metascience]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/virtue-metascience</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:54:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[What is good science anyway?

In metascience, the reflexive answer to this question relies on the  by-now standard  Progress Studies playbook. We  flip open the history books  and review the annals of innovations that lifted societies out of poverty, eliminated sources of illness and decay, and made...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Nicotine Opportunity: Military Readiness and Smoke-Free Tobacco]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-nicotine-opportunity-military-readiness-and-smoke-free-tobacco</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:03:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[You ask me what we need to win this war. I answer tobacco as much as bullets. Tobacco is as indispensable as the daily ration; we must have thousands of tons without delay. General John J. Pershing, 1917 Introduction America’s 2.1 million military servicemembers are the cornerstone of our nation’s...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Appropriations Playbook: How Policy Entrepreneurs Advance Proposals into Law]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-appropriations-playbook-how-policy-entrepreneurs-advance-proposals-into-law</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:01:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Introduction: What Is Appropriations, and Why Lobby on It? Lobbying lawmakers in the appropriations process is an effective way for nonprofit advocates to influence public policy. The appropriations process gives advocates an opportunity to persuade Congress to provide federal funding for their pol...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Clawed]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/clawed</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:30:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die. Six months prior, he had been a vigorous man, stronger than I am today, faster and more resilient on a bike than most 20-somethings. Then one day he got heart surgery and he was never the same. His soul had been sucked out of...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[FAI Experts: Blacklisting Anthropic Weakens U.S. AI Leadership]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/anthropics-position-merits-support</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:59:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Update :  Recent   escalations  since this post was published have seen the Administration formally move to phase out Anthropic’s AI across federal agencies and designate the company a supply-chain risk after it declined to accede to demands for unrestricted military use. Anthropic has announced its...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Can States Build Geothermal Power?]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/can-states-build-geothermal-power</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:22:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[After decades of effort, the federal government has finally gotten the message on geothermal power. Over the past several years, it has: 1. Authorized and funded EGS pilot demonstrations, 2. Extended geothermal investment and production tax credits, 3. Approved the 2 GW Fervo Cape project and held t...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Regulatory policy, DOE]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Science-Fictional Way of Thinking]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-science-fictional-way-of-thinking</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be—and naturally this means that there must be an accurate perception of the...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Data Center Security Standards for AI: A Gap Analysis]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/data-center-security-standards-for-ai-a-gap-analysis</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Executive Summary Data centers used in the pursuit of training next-generation frontier AI models are a distinct class of infrastructure, one that is characterized by an unprecedented concentration of value. This value is represented in the investment in infrastructure and the data assets they cont...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[With Nuclear Power, Illinois Can Lean in to What We Do Best]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/with-nuclear-power-illinois-can-lean-in-to-what-we-do-best</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:56:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Electricity demand and prices are breaking records across the country. Average rates have risen nearly 30% since 2010 and are now outpacing inflation. At the same time, consumption is accelerating as data centers, electrification and heavy industry expand. Not every city is equally prepared for this...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Toward a Federal Framework for Online Age Assurance]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/toward-a-federal-framework-for-online-age-assurance</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:56:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It may well be the best of times and the worst of times for age assurance. On the latter end of the spectrum, in July 2025, the United Kingdom rolled out new online age-gating requirements. The move triggered a  500,000-signature repeal   petition  within days, and downloads of some virtual private...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Empiricists vs. Extrapolators]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/empiricists-vs-extrapolators</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:40:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Shortly after the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, I wrote an essay called  Before the Flood: Ruminations on the future of AI . It seemed obvious to me that ChatGPT was an early indicator of a fast-approaching tsunami, although at the time not everyone agreed. It can be hard to remember now, but dismissiv...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Moving and the Still]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-moving-and-the-still</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:32:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Since I was young, I have enjoyed imagining what it must be like to walk around the inside of a cell from the perspective of something so small that it was like a human walking the streets of Manhattan. When I was younger, simpler, and more naïve, I imagined it like my textbooks told me it would be:...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Between Hype and History: Conversations with the AI Elite]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/between-hype-and-history-conversations-with-the-ai-elite</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:57:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The oral history as a form has traditionally concerned itself with those outside the halls of power. Studs Terkel interviewed steelworkers, Alessandro Portelli documented the lives of coalminers, and the Works Progress Administration collated the narratives of the formerly enslaved. Its premise rest...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Copyright and AI Policy Needs Precision, Not Panic]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/copyright-and-ai-policy-needs-precision-not-panic</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:05:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Last month, nearly 1,000 artists affixed their names to an ad that ran in the New York Times, arguing that generative A.I. is built on “theft — plain and simple.” The campaign—which the Times itself  explicitly supports —argues that tech companies are using creators’ work “without authorization” and...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reimagining STEM Doctoral Training]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/reimagining-stem-doctoral-training</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:01:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In an era of heightened global competition in science and technology and geopolitical tensions, United States leadership in science has been diminishing. The 2025 Nature Index found that in elite science journals, China accounted for 56% of the publications in 2024, whereas the US contributed only 1...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reply to Facilitating More Intensive Use of Upper Microwave Spectrum]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/reply-to-facilitating-more-intensive-use-of-upper-microwave-spectrum</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:14:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, we submitted reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission on its proposal attempting to reform the rules and practices related to Upper Microwave Flexible Use Service for telecommunication operators. Our comments highlight ideas the Commission can leverage to promote next-generati...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Can New York Fix Its Permitting Woes?]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/can-new-york-fix-its-permitting-woes</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:34:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Permitting reform is finally on the table in New York. In her State of the State speech, Governor Hochul proposed the most significant reform to New York’s environmental review law (SEQRA) since it was enacted in 1975. The proposal would exempt housing projects of up to 250 units in New York City (5...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[WhatsApp's DSA Designation Showcases Power Contest Over Tech In Europe]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/whatsapp-s-dsa-designation-showcases-power-contest-over-tech-in-europe</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:07:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The European Commission (EC) has  designated  WhatsApp a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP), subjecting it to more stringent requirements under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). WhatsApp’s designation is the latest EC move to complicate operating in the European market as a US tech company. While...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Race Worth Winning: Middle Powers in the Age of Machine Intelligence]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-race-worth-winning-middle-powers-in-the-age-of-machine-intelligence</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:07:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Executive Summary Artificial intelligence presents the greatest transformation in human affairs since the industrial revolution, and it may be greater still. It promises material and informational abundance: machines to carry out the dangerous and arduous, leaving humanity wealthier, safer, and fre...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Future of Quantum Computing (No Crystal Balls Necessary)]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-future-of-quantum-computing-no-crystal-balls-necessary</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:41:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, the first quantum devices were  put on the cloud . A milestone moment in the history of the then-nascent quantum industry, it signaled that a new era was being born. Quantum was becoming accessible, adoptable, and actionable. Fast-forwarding to today, and coming off the heels of the 2...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[On Recursive Self-Improvement (Part II)]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/on-recursive-self-improvement-part-ii</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:02:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On the same day I published Part I of this series, OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, a new model that the company  claims  helped to engineer itself: The recent rapid Codex improvements build on the fruit of research projects spanning months or years across all of OpenAI. These research projects are be...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[America Needs a New Generation of War Scouts]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/america-needs-a-new-generation-of-war-scouts</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:10:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the greatest photospreads in American military thinking appears in the May 11, 1959 issue of  LIFE Magazine . There, amidst an article about the then newly-formed RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, four pages capture the goings-on at what the magazine diminutively called a “valuable batch of b...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Congress Should Conduct Oversight of GAO during Its Leadership Transition]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/congress-should-conduct-oversight-of-gao-during-its-leadership-transition</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:41:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a  hearing  to examine duplication in government programs. Acting Comptroller General Orice Williams Brown, who took over the leadership of the Government Accountability Office from Gene Dodaro in late December, will be one...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Federal and State Policy Opportunities to Improve Indoor Air Quality]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/federal-and-state-policy-opportunities-to-improve-indoor-air-quality</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:52:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Abstract The United States has significant opportunities to ensure buildings have clean indoor air. Federal and state governments can promote health-based indoor air quality (IAQ) targets, provide guidance and technical assistance, fund ventilation improvements, incentivize or require IAQ standards...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Research Papers, EPA, DOE, DOD, DOT]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[An Allied World on the American AI Stack: A Strategy for Export Leadership]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/an-allied-world-on-the-american-ai-stack-a-strategy-for-export-leadership</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:59:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Executive Summary The United States currently leads across the artificial intelligence stack, from advanced chips to frontier models and applications. But that lead is narrowing. China is rapidly building capability and moving to contest nascent global AI markets. Sustaining American advantage mean...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Research Papers, China]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[On Recursive Self-Improvement (Part I)]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/on-recursive-self-improvement-part-i</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[America’s major frontier AI labs will have begun automating large fractions of their research and engineering operations. The pace of this automation will grow during the course of 2026, and within a year or two the effective “workforces” of each frontier lab will grow from the single-digit thousand...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Introducing Plain Job Titles Please]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/introducing-plain-job-titles-please</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">8bb17802-cc87-4afb-91b3-e5f33de894e1</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:57:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The American Governance team is excited to launch a new project:  Plain Job Titles Please . It's easy for the government to make resolutions, but hard to follow through. So we made a counter to help them out. It counts the number of days since a federal agency last tried to hire an “IT Specialist.”...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, IT modernization]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Life in the Third Oikos: Wilson Cusack]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/life-in-the-third-oikos-wilson-cusack</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:19:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“I’m in India and I should be living the personal productivity dream. I have a job that isn’t really very busy. I live with no distractions by myself in my room. I can do whatever I want. And I am not happy. But I realized the best part of my day was the 45 minutes I let myself go downstairs and pla...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Family policy, Blockchain]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Grid Policy for the AI Demand Surge]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/grid-policy-for-the-ai-demand-surge</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:54:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Introduction After 15 years of flat electricity demand, artificial intelligence is once more growing the grid. Data center electricity consumption is projected to triple by 2030, reaching 400 to 600 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually, roughly 8 to 12 percent of total U.S. demand. Unlike prior false star...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Research Papers, Artificial Intelligence, DOE]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Congress Should Prioritize the Comptroller General Nomination and Reform GAO]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/congress-should-prioritize-the-comptroller-general-nomination-and-reform-gao</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:58:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Time is running out for the current Republican-controlled Congress. The Senate will be  in session  for just 22 more weeks before the November election. Lawmakers must choose how to focus their remaining time. Republican senators should prioritize the process of identifying and confirming the nation...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, GAO]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Data Centers Are Not the Villain]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/data-centers-are-not-the-villain</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Rare is the political wave that will bring together Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders and Florida Republican Ron DeSantis. DeSantis has pushed to limit Florida data center construction and sided with Floridians blaming them for higher electric bills. Sanders would go further and wants a national  dat...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Speaking with a Manager]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/speaking-with-a-manager</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:07:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Last Friday, a troika of mid-Atlantic governors showed up at the White House for a surprise visit. Not long after, they were gone, just in time for forecasts of Winter Storm Fern to underscore the stakes of a grid stretched to its limits. What pushed them there? Start with PJM’s latest capacity auct...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[DOE]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Day Without Cities]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-day-without-cities</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:47:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Many of us have been frustrated with local government. Perhaps the roads go unpaved, the streets go unplowed, or traffic tickets are handed out too aggressively. Most of us don’t do much besides be quietly unhappy, although some angrier citizens take their complaints to city hall. An elite few judge...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Management policy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[To Fix Federal HR, Washington Must Stop Rewarding Failure]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/to-fix-federal-hr-washington-must-stop-rewarding-failure</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">ffbc18d3-7b29-4408-9b7e-573e51558981</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:43:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The U.S. federal government is technically one entity, but its software practices look more like a UN summit. Washington uses  more than 100 human resources systems  to manage payroll and benefits for roughly two million federal employees. That patchwork includes long outdated, insecure systems that...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, IT modernization, Oversight]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Job Listing: Senior Fellow, Government Efficiency and Effectiveness]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/job-listing-senior-fellow-government-efficiency-and-effectiveness</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:39:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Foundation for American Innovation champions the technology, talent, and ideas essential to American prosperity, security, and flourishing. We are builders, hackers, and scholars advancing an optimistic vision of the future—aligning technology with human ends to forge a more perfect union betwee...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, FAI, Open Jobs]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Senate Rules Reform Package: Empowering Senators to Participate in Debate, Offer Amendments, and Cast Up-or-Down Votes]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-senate-rules-reform-package</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:54:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Overview The package pairs majority concerns (time lost to repeated cloture fights just to get on a bill) with minority concerns (being shut out of amendments once the Senate is on a bill). It aims to make it easier for the Senate to take up bills  and  for senators to offer amendments during floor...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Congress]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Last Great Electrical Buildout and Our Future ]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-last-great-electrical-buildout-and-our-future</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:19:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The United States has faced grid emergencies before and emerged from them stronger by focusing on thoughtful solutions that aligned the incentives of consumers with suppliers. In the 1950s, the spread of electrified homes, factories, and air conditioning gave rise to a specter of blackouts and power...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Regulatory policy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[On AI and Children]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/on-ai-and-children</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:53:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The first societal harms of language models did not involve bioattacks, chemical weapons development, autonomous cyberattacks, or any of the other exotic flavors of risk focused on by AI safety researchers. Instead, the first harms of generalist artificial intelligence were decidedly more familiar,...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Family policy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rebuilding Congress from Within: How Factions Facilitate Deliberation and Lawmaking]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/rebuilding-congress-from-within-how-factions-facilitate-deliberation-and-lawmaking</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:53:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Introduction Congress is broken. The House and Senate do not deliberate—much less legislate—on the issues most important to voters. On the rare occasions when Congress works, it does so by relying on a centralized process dominated by party leaders that makes it harder for rank-and-file lawmakers t...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Research Papers, Modernizing Congress]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Adaptable Are American Workers to AI-Induced Job Displacement?]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/how-adaptable-are-american-workers-to-ai-induced-job-displacement</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">d8089183-90ab-4876-ab0f-bc4bdc203e6f</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Abstract We construct an occupation-level adaptive capacity index that measures a set of worker characteristics relevant for navigating job transitions if displaced, covering 356 occupations that represent 95.9% of the U.S. workforce. We find that AI exposure and adaptive capacity are positively cor...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Research Papers, Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Accidental Architecture of NEPA]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-accidental-architecture-of-nepa</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:46:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the well-commented-on oddities of environmental law is that the National Environmental Policy Act, the most litigated environmental statute in America, contains no provision for private litigation. A brief overview confirms this. Section 101 declares a national policy of preservation. Section...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Regulatory policy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Standby, or Stand Firm? (Part 3: Final)]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/standby-or-stand-firm-part-3-final</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Policy Gradients  went quiet for several weeks this holiday season. 1  PJM did not. This is the final post in the  Standby, or Stand Firm  series. When we left off, PJM’s Critical Issue Fast Path on Large Load Additions (CIFP-LLA) was in full swing as billion-dollar stakeholders argued over what to...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Regulatory policy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[An Efficiency Agenda for Congress ]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/an-efficiency-agenda-for-congress</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:54:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Executive Summary The United States faces serious fiscal challenges. Correcting the nation’s unsustainable fiscal course will require difficult policy decisions. Policymakers must address the factors driving structural deficits—for example, by reducing expenditures on major entitlement programs or...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Research Papers, Modernizing Congress, IT modernization, DOGE, Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[America Has an Alzheimer’s Problem. Can Trump Fix It?]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/america-has-an-alzheimer-s-problem-can-trump-fix-it</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:49:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[America has an  Alzheimer’s  problem,  devastating  families and driving soaring  healthcare  costs. More than  7 million people  over 65 years old live with Alzheimer’s dementia today, a number predicted to double by 2050. Costs are staggering, by some  estimates  over $1  trillion  per year, which...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, Science policy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The AI Patchwork Emerges]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-ai-patchwork-emerges</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:09:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[State legislative sessions are kicking into gear, and that means a flurry of AI laws are already under consideration across America. In prior years, the headline number of introduced state AI laws has been large: famously, 2025 saw over 1,000 state bills related to AI in some way. But  as I pointed...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Response to Partnerships for Transformational Artificial Intelligence Models]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-response-to-partnerships-for-transformational-artificial-intelligence-models</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:47:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[We appreciate the opportunity to help inform the implementation of the Genesis Mission at the Department of Energy. To effectively execute this mission, the Department should establish an American scientific data consortium, to utilize the breadth of authorities available to the Department. We note...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Public Filings, DOE, Energy, Science policy, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reforming GAO for the Twenty-First Century:  Achieving Fiscal Savings and Increasing Government Efficiency]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/reforming-gao-for-the-twenty-first-century-achieving-fiscal-savings-and-increasing-government</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:50:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Executive Summary In December 2025, Gene Dodaro’s term as comptroller general of the United States concluded. Under federal law, a bipartisan congressional commission will recommend candidates to serve as the next comptroller general and lead the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the p...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Research Papers, Modernizing Congress, GAO, Technology assessment]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[China's Rare Earths Chokehold: A Primer]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/china-s-rare-earths-chokehold-a-primer</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:20:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the course of the last year, we’ve seen China suspend rare earth exports twice, generating a short-lived round of public interest and short-lived “expertise” in America. Each crisis followed a similar progression: an aggrieved China introduces export licensing, effectively suspending US access...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, China]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Among the Agents]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/among-the-agents</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:35:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In the past month I have: 1. Automated invoice creation, sending, and tracking; 2. Created scientifically realistic simulations of hydrological systems as a learning project; 3. Automated my research process of gathering and analyzing all proposed state legislation related to AI (though this is no s...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kurzweilomics Revisited]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/kurzweilomics-revisited</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:50:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[An artificial general intelligence system is typically defined as an AI-system that can accomplish any cognitive task better than the best human. For looser definitions, some  FAI scholars  believe we already have artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the form of systems like Claude Code, althoug...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Oil Companies Want to Keep the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. Yes, Really.]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/oil-companies-want-to-keep-the-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-program-yes-really</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:46:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When the Environmental Protection Agency proposed to  repeal most of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program  last year, the intent was clear: to reduce administrative burden and save businesses money.  The aim is laudable. Cutting unnecessary regulation and empowering American industry are core princi...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, EPA, Regulatory policy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[FAI’s 2025 Growth and Program Breakdown]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/fai-2025-growth</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:59:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[2025 was a remarkable year of growth and impact for FAI. We significantly expanded our staffing, revenue, and standing—reflecting a broader shift in how policymakers, technologists, and funders now engage with us. From shaping national AI policy to advancing durable reforms in energy and permitting,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Job Listing: Program Manager–Governance]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/job-listing-program-manager-governance</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Foundation for American Innovation champions the technology, talent, and ideas essential to American prosperity, security, and flourishing. We are builders, hackers, and scholars advancing an optimistic vision of the future—aligning technology with human ends to forge a more perfect union betwee...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Architecting a New Operating System for American Science]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/architecting-a-new-operating-system-for-american-science</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today’s article is not related to quantum computing, but could be of interest for those who think about science & its culture, America, and the future of both. Recently the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) put out a “request for information” (RFI) on the topic of  “Accelera...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Conservative Vision for an Accelerated, Flourishing Scientific Ecosystem]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-conservative-vision-for-an-accelerated-flourishing-scientific-ecosystem</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, I submitted a comment in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy's (OSTP) request for information on how to accelerate the American scientific enterprise.  Introduction The scientific enterprise is a historical driver of strong economic growth and human flourishing. It is the...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Public Filings, OSTP, Innovation governance]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Unleash American Energy Dominance Financing to Win on Energy and AI]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/how-to-unleash-american-energy-dominance-financing-to-win-on-energy-and-ai</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:14:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[American leadership in reliable, affordable and abundant energy is non-negotiable for our national security, economic growth and global competitiveness. Today, this leadership is at risk. While domestic energy demand surges, our adversaries — led by  China, the world’s dominant energy financier  — a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes from the UAE]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/notes-from-the-uae</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:40:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week, I had the privilege of visiting the United Arab Emirates as part of a fact-finding mission organized by the  Middle East Institute  and sponsored by the UAE embassy in D.C.. The purpose of the trip was to learn about the UAE’s AI strategy from senior officials and business leaders in Abu...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Public diplomacy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dice in the Air]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/dice-in-the-air</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:13:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The past year has been an unusually productive one, both for me personally and for the budding AI industry whose developments I cover. On a personal level, I developed my framework for the private governance of AI; authored essays, articles, and papers; and did a stint in government. Most important...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Quarterly Update, Q4 2025]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/quarterly-update-q4-2025</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear friend of FAI: As we close out 2025, I’m excited to share our last quarterly update of the year and reflect on our impact, growth, and success. The FAI team continues to strengthen national security, improve American governance, and keep America at the forefront of technological dynamism. The n...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Congress Should Reform the Government Accountability Office for the Twenty-First Century]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/congress-should-reform-the-government-accountability-office-for-the-twenty-first-century</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:23:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Comptroller General Gene Dodaro’s 15-year term leading the Government Accountability Office will end later this month. Mr. Dodaro’s tenure of public service spans more than 50 years. Few Americans have made more contributions to the federal government, and his leadership has resulted in considerable...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, DOGE, Management policy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Genesis Mission and Quantum Technologies]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-genesis-mission-and-quantum-technologies</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:18:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Manhattan. Apollo. The defining projects of American power each share one trait: urgency met with overwhelming national will. Recently, Washington signaled it’s time again. Quantum technology is not arriving in some distant future, it is here. Major announcements in the last week buoy this assessmen...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, Science policy, Innovation policy, Quantum]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The $100 Billion Question Nobody’s Asking: Why Are Taxpayers Funding Big Tech Contracts With Nothing to Show for It?]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-usd100-billion-question-nobody-s-asking-why-are-taxpayers-funding-big-tech-contracts-with</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:14:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When the government, or anyone for that matter, spends $100 billion annually on information technology, you’d expect transformative results. Instead, we get a masterclass in institutional capture. It’s clear the  federal government  is serving the best interests of massive software companies, not  t...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, Big Tech, IT modernization]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Step Toward America’s All-of-the-Above Energy Future]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-step-toward-america-s-all-of-the-above-energy-future</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:42:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The line is so often repeated that it verges on being a cliché: America can’t build things anymore. Not broadband, not electric transmission lines, not even nuclear power plants. While red tape is not always the sole cause, it has become a common and significant contributor to our national gridlock....]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, Regulatory policy, Nuclear]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Job Listing: Director of Administration]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/job-listing-director-of-administration</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:47:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Foundation for American Innovation champions the technology, talent, and ideas essential to American prosperity, security, and flourishing. We are builders, hackers, and scholars advancing an optimistic vision of the future—aligning technology with human ends to forge a more perfect union betwee...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where Do You Stand?]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/where-do-you-stand</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:57:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A few days ago I bade farewell to an old friend. That’s how it felt, at least. The mechanics were decidedly less dramatic than the feeling: all I did was drag a long-residing application from my macOS dock and watch its application icon poof, in signature Mac style, into nothingness. The app is call...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, Philosophy]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Right Needs a Tech Philosophy]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-right-needs-a-tech-philosophy</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:14:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Many conservatives understand themselves to be waging a one-front war against a single opponent, the Left, over the future of the country. If we can finally defeat liberalism, the thinking goes, America’s prosperity will be assured. A sizeable contingency on the Right, however, understands the fight...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Congress Can Hold App Stores Accountable]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/congress-can-hold-app-stores-accountable</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:44:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A mother confiscated her 14-year-old daughter’s iPhone after  discovering  older men soliciting her daughter for sex through an app that Apple deemed appropriate for children. A 15-year old boy  became  violent and homicidal after using an AI chatbot marketed to children. A 14-year old girl  develop...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Guide to State Permitting]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-guide-to-state-permitting</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:38:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Apologies for the hiatus, the FAI State Permitting effort has been running at full tilt. We have the  new edition  of the State Permitting Playbook, expanding our coverage to 49 states; an  expansion pack  focused on what states can do to improve the prospects of nuclear energy in their states; and,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Understanding AI’s Labor Market Impacts: Opportunities for the Department of Labor’s AI Workforce Research Hub]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/understanding-ai-s-labor-market-impacts-opportunities-for-the-department-of-labor-s-ai-workforce</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Introduction There is deep uncertainty about how significant AI’s workforce effects will be, how quickly they will emerge, and which groups they will affect most. Some economists expect only modest effects on employment in the near term, while several leading AI developers and other economists warn...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The International Trade Commission Has Become a Tool in China’s Lawfare Campaign]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-international-trade-commission-has-become-a-tool-in-china-s-lawfare-campaign</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:21:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“Lawfare” describes the weaponization of the legal process to achieve political or economic goals, rather than to resolve genuine disputes. To advance their predatory interests, Chinese companies and their affiliates use lawfare in U.S. forums— expanding beyond U.S. courts  to the U.S. International...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Find Rule XVI Violations in Minibus]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/how-to-find-rule-xvi-violations-in-minibus</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:33:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Republican divisions over earmarks are presently holding up a five-bill minibus appropriations package in the Senate. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., wants the Senate to take up the minibus by unanimous consent instead of using the process defined in its rules to begin debate. Conservatives are...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Congress Can Meet the Moment on Kids’ Online Safety]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/congress-can-meet-the-moment-on-kids-online-safety</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:39:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Every technology has its tradeoffs. Over the past two decades, we’ve seen the light and dark sides of major tech platforms, from social media to app stores to AI chatbots. The economic and societal benefits of these advancements shouldn’t be discounted, but neither should the harm on children from c...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Canningite Tradition]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-canningite-tradition</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:30:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Spheres of influence have made a dramatic comeback during the second Trump era. Dreams of maintaining the rules-based order are shattered. There is no going back, and the only question is how this chaotic period will reset global affairs. The United States is trying to assert its dominance over the...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why the Senate Needs Unanimous Consent to Advance Minibus]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/why-the-senate-needs-unanimous-consent-to-advance-minibus</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Negotiations over advancing a five-bill minibus appropriations bill in the Senate remain at an impasse due to conservative opposition. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., wants senators to begin debate on the measure by waiving the Senate’s rules by unanimous consent. But Mike Lee, R-Utah, Ron Johns...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Senate Republicans Could Enforce Earmark Ban If They Wanted To]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/senate-republicans-could-enforce-earmark-ban-if-they-wanted-to</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:11:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Senate  can’t  advance a five-bill minibus appropriations package because of Republican divisions over earmarks. Republicans on the Senate appropriations committee want to pass the package before the end of the year. To do so, Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., needs unanimous consent to add fo...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Earmark Dispute Stalls Senate Minibus]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/earmark-dispute-stalls-senate-minibus</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:13:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Republican divisions over earmarks have stalled the Senate’s effort to advance a five-bill appropriations “minibus” package before the end of the year. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.,  wants  to add four appropriations bills - Commerce, Justice, Science; Interior and Environment; Labor, Health a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Call to Action in Percipient.ai v. United States]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-call-to-action-in-percipient-ai-v-united-states</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, I submitted the following letter to the Office of the Solicitor General regarding  Percipient.ai v. United States . ----- SCOTUS Case No. 25-428 The 12-judge en banc Federal Circuit on a 7–4 split just decided its first government contracts case in over 40 years—and it is grievously wrong on...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Heiliger Dankgesang]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/heiliger-dankgesang</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:08:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In the bald and barren north, there is a dark sea, the Lake of Heaven. In it is a fish which is several thousand li across, and no one knows how long. His name is K’un. There is also a bird there, named P’eng, with a back like Mount T’ai and wings like clouds filling the sky. He beats the whirlwind,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Bipartisan Bill to End Unnecessary Federal Spending on Software Licenses]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-bipartisan-bill-to-end-unnecessary-federal-spending-on-software-licenses</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:54:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The federal government spends $100 billion annually on federal information technology. Improving how departments and agencies manage IT is therefore a ripe opportunity for Washington to achieve taxpayer savings and make the government work better for the American people. One of the most apparent are...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Blog Posts, IT modernization, Modernizing Congress]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The State Permitting Playbook: Behind-the-Meter Power Supplement]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-state-permitting-playbook-behind-the-meter-power-supplement</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Introduction U.S. data center construction has overtaken the bulk power system. Hyperscale compute campuses can now be built in under 18 months. In contrast, new transmission lines, substations, and utility-scale generation often take 5–10 years. In many states, that mismatch is the constraint on g...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The State Permitting Playbook: Nuclear Energy Supplement]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-state-permitting-playbook-nuclear-energy-supplement</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:41:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Introduction The United States has a huge and growing demand for baseload power. Meeting this demand will require an all-hands-on-deck policy approach at not only the federal level, but also the state level. However, state-level policy design has so far received limited attention. This supplement t...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Federal Software Needs a DOGE Makeover]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/federal-software-needs-a-doge-makeover</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On day one of his second term, President Donald Trump  established  the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with a mandate to modernize federal information technology (IT) systems. The effort spotlighted a  longstanding  problem: government agencies paying too much for inefficient software th...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, DOGE, IT modernization, Modernizing Congress]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The First Prophet of Abundance]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-first-prophet-of-abundance</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:56:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[To liberals of the 1940s, David E. Lilienthal was the man who promised abundance, and the Tennessee Valley Authority was the government agency that delivered it. Under Lilienthal’s leadership, the TVA accomplished spectacular feats of engineering. Through the construction of a dozen dams, it brought...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reauthorizing the SBIR Program is Important for Economic Competitiveness]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/reauthorizing-the-sbir-program-is-important-for-economic-competitiveness</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:24:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program  expired  at the end of September due to a disagreement between Senator Ernst (R-IA) and Senator Markey (D-MA), the chair and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. They  disagree  about the status of...]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Commentary, Education]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Tech Right Gift Guide 2025]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-tech-right-gift-guide-2025</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:34:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Tech Right isn’t “on the rise.” It won. The federal government is  stocked  with founders and VCs, the U.S. economy is basically a highly leveraged  bet  on deep learning, and San Francisco is slowly crawling out of the doom loop. History didn't end; it shitposted its way into a new political ag...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A New Strategy to Promote Innovation in Education]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/a-new-strategy-to-promote-innovation-in-education</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:10:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Secretary Linda McMahon is working to fulfill President Trump’s  March executive order  to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education (DoE). Last week, the department  announced  six interagency agreements to transfer major programs and responsibilities to other federal agencies, including the Labor...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Export Control Loopholes: Chipmaking Tools and Their Subcomponents]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/export-control-loopholes-chipmaking-tools-and-their-subcomponents</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, I testified at a hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, about " Export Control Loopholes: Chipmaking Tools and Their Subcomponents ." ----- Chairman Huizenga, Ranking Member Kamlager-Dove, and distinguished members of the subcommittee:...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Personnel Is Policy: The Fabric of Government Organization]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/personnel-is-policy-the-fabric-of-government-organization</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:28:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Under the old spoils system, the American government was remade every four years. Incoming presidents would purge more than ten thousand officials from the Post Office alone, sending postmasters and clerks packing to make room for political cronies. This churn lasted well into the twentieth century....]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Capitalizing Main Street: The Past and Future of Small Business Investment Companies]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/capitalizing-main-street-the-past-and-future-of-small-business-investment-companies</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:21:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Adam Smith’s invisible hand sometimes gets help from Washington’s visible one. A prime example of this is a little-known federal program that has helped fund some of America’s largest and most successful companies. Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs)—federally subsidized investment firms—inv...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Attention Is Power]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/attention-is-power</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:48:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Debates about free speech online are misframed. Instead of focusing on what content should be removed or censored, we should instead focus on restoring the underlying social and technical structures that enabled free speech to function well in the past. A crucial part of that structure is  freedom o...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Hidden Legal Engine of Progress—from Railroads to AI]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-hidden-legal-engine-of-progress-from-railroads-to-ai</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:09:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Free enterprise is at the core of the American experiment. As President Calvin Coolidge famously  proclaimed  in 1925, “The chief business of the American people is business.”  Yet in the early days of the American Republic, it was not clear that competition as we understand it today was even  legal...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Three Mile Island Readout]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/the-three-mile-island-readout</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:39:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This week, the Loan Programs Office closed its first new loan under the Trump administration – a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy Group to assist with the restart of the once-infamous Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station’s Unit 1. This loan is historic for several reasons, including s...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What National Security Leaders Need to Know About Quantum Computing]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/what-national-security-leaders-need-to-know-about-quantum-computing</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The question of how quantum computing could impact national security is one that the field has wrestled with ever since the development of Shor’s factoring algorithm, which showed that quantum computers could one day break our currently-used encryption methods. And over the past ~30 years, the devel...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[To Defeat the Bureaucracy, Embrace Bureaucracy]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/to-defeat-the-bureaucracy-embrace-bureaucracy</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The pink slips have been flying in Washington of late. The Trump administration has axed civil servants by the tens of thousands, and the country is tuned in: Journalists cover it, citizens protest it, and judges are ruling on it. In response, observers are looking back to the Clinton administration...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Support for Clean Water Act Section 401 Reforms]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/support-for-clean-water-act-section-401-reforms</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, we signed on to a letter urging Congress to enact policies to modernize Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. ----- Dear Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader Jeffries, Majority Leader Thune, and Minority Leader Schumer, On behalf of a broad coalition representing America’s energy stakeholders who...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[State Permitting Playbook: Part II]]></title>
      <link>https://thefai.org/posts/state-permitting-playbook-part-ii</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:59:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The United States faces significant challenges in its ability to build and maintain critical infrastructure, develop new technologies, and compete globally in strategic industries. A major factor contributing to these challenges is the intricate system of environmental regulations and permitting pr...]]></description>
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