The AI Boom Still Runs on Old-Fashioned Airwaves
AI may live in the cloud, but the cloud still needs roads. Those roads are communications networks—and the airwaves they depend on may determine how far and fast the AI boom can travel.
That two-way relationship will take center stage tomorrow, when the U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media holds a hearing titled “Intelligent Networks: Powering Artificial Intelligence and Transforming Communications.” Networks carry the traffic AI generates, while AI is beginning to reshape how those networks are built, managed, and shared.
The hearing will likely cover the familiar ground of investment, deployment, and network architecture. Those questions matter. But each rests on a more basic input that rarely gets equal billing: radio spectrum.
A new International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) issue brief examines that overlooked foundation in detail. It is the second installment in ICLE’s series on the infrastructure underpinning the next race for AI leadership.