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Will Rinehart

Logan, Washington, D.C.
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Covers:  Antitrust, AI, competition, privacy, economics of tech, data regulation, broadband deployment, and philosophy of tech
Doesn't Cover: patents and copyright
Senior Fellow @AEI. AI policy, vetocracy, & attention markets. Husband to @CharDreizen. Let's build.

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My name is Will and I’m currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. In my day to day job, I specialize on the public policy of telecommunication, the Internet, platform companies, and AI, with a focus on emerging technologies and innovation. Fundamentally, I am interested in the intersection between technology and society.

My work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Wired, Morning Consult, The Hill, Forbes, Reason, Margin…

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Virtual political conventions have pros and cons - Marketplace

Virtual political conventions have pros and cons - Marketplace

The Republican National Convention starts Monday. And if you watched any of the Democratic convention, you kn…

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A "vehicle for antitrust change" picks up steam - Marketplace

A "vehicle for antitrust change" picks up steam - Marketplace

The latest effort to reign in Big Tech cleared a procedural step in the Senate last week, moving one step clo…

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The AI revolution is running ahead of the workplace

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By Will Rinehart
| Washington Examiner Verified
As a child, I was obsessed with my grandfather’s red tractor, a classic Farmall H. When it wasn’t being used, you could find it parked between the garden and the barn, like a sphinx protecting the corn fields. I’ve since learned that the Farmall was truly revolutionary for the farms and families where I grew up in Illinois.
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The Evidence on Generative AI and the American Economy

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By Will Rinehart
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
Introduction The empirical literature on generative AI has grown substantially over the past couple years. Randomized trials, natural experiments, and large-scale adoption surveys now cover a range of different contexts, including customer support, software development, legal analysis, writing, education, and firm-level outcomes. The evidence is worth examining carefully, because the popular debate has run ahead of it.
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A Federal Privacy Law Must Face the Tradeoffs

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By Will Rinehart, Julia Torres
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
The fight over federal privacy legislation is often described as a debate over consumer rights, but the real fight has always been over federalism. That tension was on display last week when the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a hearing on the SECURE Data Act, the latest effort to establish a federal privacy bill.
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