America First in AI: Protecting Jobs, Advancing Innovation by Dr. Jasmin Cowin
Great stories have always helped us understand complex truths about human behavior, and sometimes the simplest tales reveal the most profound insights about how incentives shape our choices. In this exclusive Stankevicius article, the author interleaves insights from Martine Murray’s “The Wanting Monster,” a children’s fable, with an exploration of how America might realign Silicon Valley incentives to serve American workers and communities first. The author explored previously in exclusive Stankevicius articles: Autonomous AI’s Spellbook and the Absent Necromancer, and Forging the Future: President Trump’s AI Vision and OpenAI’s Challenge to DeepSeek.
The challenge facing America’s technology sector today stems from a fundamental misalignment of incentives that has driven companies to outsource essential AI work overseas while promising domestic job creation and technological leadership. As economist Steven Landsburg observed, “People respond to incentives. The rest is commentary.”
Dr. Jasmin (Bey) Cowin, an Associate Professor at Touro University, received the 2024 Touro University CETL Faculty Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the Rockefeller Institute of Government awarded her the prestigious Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellowship (2024-2025). As a Fulbright Scholar and SIT Graduate, she was selected to be a U.S. Department of State English Language Specialist. Her expertise in AI in education is underscored by her role as an AI trainer and former Education Policy Fellow (EPFP™) at Columbia University's Teachers College. As a columnist for Stankevicius, she explores Nicomachean Ethics at the intersection of AI and education. She has contributed to initiatives like Computers for Schools Burundi, served as a resource specialist for Amity University in Uttar Pradesh, India, and participated in TESOL "Train the Trainer" programs in Yemen and Morocco. Her research interests include simulations and metaverse for educators-in-training, AI applications in education and language acquisition and teaching, and distributed ledger technologies, with a focus on her 'Education for 2060' theme.
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