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March 2026

Research

AI as Critical Infrastructure

The United States cannot opt out of building advanced AI. Capability will be developed somewhere — the question is whether democratic societies will lead.

Negotiate The Future · March 1, 2026

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Labor

The Economic Distribution Challenge

What makes AI different from prior technology transitions is not displacement — it is speed. The capability curve is moving faster than workplaces, wages, and institutions can adjust.

February 20, 2026

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Energy

Realistic Environmental Accounting

Two responses dominate the current discourse on AI and energy — moral panic and PR minimization. Both are wrong. The path forward requires honest accounting.

February 10, 2026

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Geopolitics

Building an Allied Compute Strategy

Export controls on advanced chips are a symptom of a larger strategic gap: democratic nations lack a coordinated framework for compute capacity as a shared security asset.

January 28, 2026

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Consumers

Consumer Protection in the AI Era

When an algorithm denies your loan, terminates your employment, or determines your insurance rate, existing consumer protection law is poorly equipped to respond.

January 15, 2026

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IP

Training Data, Copyright, and the IP Commons

Foundation models are trained on human creative work at a scale that has no legal precedent. The courts are catching up. Congress has not started.

January 5, 2026

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