OpEd
John Bailey
The AI Action Plan: Securing America’s Future ...

The White House’s 2025 AI Action Plan outlines an ambitious roadmap aimed at securing America’s global leadership in artificial intelligence through rapid innovation, strategic infrastructure, and assertive international engagement. Emphasizing open-source models, regulatory sandboxes, and workforce initiatives, the plan boldly contrasts previous approaches by accelerating deployment and competitiveness over precautionary regulation. However, critical gaps remain in AI interpretability, state-federal dynamics, copyright clarity, and execution specifics. The ultimate measure of success will depend not merely on technological advancement, but on ensuring responsible governance, maintaining public trust, and effectively managing AI’s profound risks alongside its transformative opportunities.

The AI Action Plan: Securing America’s Future in the Age of Intelligence
OpEd
John Bailey
The Intelligence of Things Is Here—Reflections ...

Google I/O 2025 underscored a pivotal shift toward the "Intelligence of Things," embedding advanced AI into everyday tools and devices, seamlessly integrating technology into daily life rather than creating isolated products. Google's vision emphasizes proactive, personalized AI, exemplified by Gemini 2.5’s deep research tools and immersive communication innovations like Beam and real-time multilingual translation in Google Meet. The event highlighted AI's transformative impact on education, notably through Project Astra's multimodal learning capabilities and LearnLM’s integration into Gemini, significantly enhancing pedagogical effectiveness. Central to this evolution is the critical role of agile public policy in facilitating safe innovation, ensuring AI technologies serve human needs by enhancing safety, productivity, and quality of life.

The Intelligence of Things Is Here—Reflections from Google I/O 2025
OpEd
John Bailey
Agents, Access, and Advantage: Lessons from ...

Meta was kind enough to extend an invitation for me to attend its inaugural LlamaCon—a one-day developer summit devoted to the Llama family of open-source large language models. It offered the chance to better understand the direction in which both the technology and its surrounding ecosystem are moving, and therefore merits a close read by anyone shaping AI strategy or policy.

Agents, Access, and Advantage: Lessons from Meta’s LlamaCon
Article
John Bailey
Honored to Be Included In Washingtonian ...

It’s an honor to be named among Washingtonian Magazine's Most Influential People, alongside so many exceptional leaders whom I deeply admire, learn from, and have the privilege to work with.

Honored to Be Included In Washingtonian Magazine's Most Influential People
OpEd
John Bailey
The AI Race Accelerates: Key Insights from the ...

AI is advancing faster than anyone expected — and the 2025 AI Index Report proves it. From AI models matching Nobel-level intellect to a 280x drop in computing costs, Stanford’s latest report maps the jaw-dropping acceleration of AI capabilities. The U.S. still leads in AI models and private investment, but China is closing the quality gap—and fast. Meanwhile, AI-driven labs are already making major scientific breakthroughs, like designing nanobodies to fight COVID-19, and outperforming doctors in diagnostic accuracy.

The AI Race Accelerates: Key Insights from the 2025 AI Index Report

OpEd

Why 'Opportunity Zones' Could Solve Unemployment In Slow-Growth Areas

Why 'Opportunity Zones' Could Solve Unemployment In Slow-Growth Areas

For decades Americans have had the chance to invest in emerging markets all around the world. Now they have the chance to invest in America’s own emerging markets and finance the comeback story so many communities have been waiting to write.

The Other Challenge of Artificial Intelligence

The Other Challenge of Artificial Intelligence

By now, it is almost routine to see columns sounding the alarm about millions of existing jobs at risk of being automated. However, the real risk is that we do not have a system ready to equip people with the skills needed to fill millions of new and modified jobs that will result from the rise of AI.