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Charles Ferguson, a technology investor and policy analyst, directed the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job.

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  1. The Crisis in Western AI Is Real
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    The Crisis in Western AI Is Real

    Feb 6, 2025 Charles Ferguson thinks the US industry bears a considerable share of the blame for China’s DeepSeek breakthrough.

  2. Our AI Near-Future
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    Our AI Near-Future

    Jan 3, 2025 Charles Ferguson offers a brief roadmap of how the technology will evolve and be deployed over the next few years.

  3. Our AI Near-Future
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    Our AI Near-Future

    Dec 16, 2024 Charles Ferguson offers a brief roadmap of how the technology will evolve and be deployed over the next few years.

  4. Europe’s Existential AI Challenge
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    Europe’s Existential AI Challenge

    Nov 1, 2024 Bertrand Badré & Charles Ferguson explain what is wrong with the EU technology startup system, and what to do about it.

  5. What Remote Work Can Do for Global Development
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    What Remote Work Can Do for Global Development

    Oct 25, 2024 Charles Ferguson points out that the decoupling of economic activity from geographic location has only just begun.

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    Trump’s Looming Deficit Disaster

    Desmond Lachman explains why the US president’s trade tariffs and planned tax cuts are at odds with basic economic realities.
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    Governing AI for the Public Interest

    Mariana Mazzucato & Tommaso Valletti explain why the UK government’s recently released AI “action plan” misses the mark.
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    Putting the Trump-Modi Bromance to the Test

    Brahma Chellaney hopes that the US and Indian leaders take concrete steps to reset and deepen the bilateral relationship.
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    The Dark Side of EU Deregulation

    Alberto Alemanno warns that the bloc’s efforts to reduce bureaucratic red tape will do more harm than good.
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    Daniel Gros on DeepSeek, Germany's malaise, EU competitiveness, and more

    Daniel Gros hopes that a Chinese startup's apparent AI breakthrough will provide a much-needed boost to European competitiveness, advises the EU on how to deal with Donald Trump, urges Europe to improve conditions for bottom-up innovation, and more.
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    Trump Will Not Kill the Global Energy Transition

    Ian Bremmer

    Despite Donald Trump's promise to boost fossil-fuel production, the economic and technological forces driving the clean-energy revolution cannot be stopped. The global transition will power forward, even if America has abandoned climate leadership, and even if the road ahead includes a few more bumps.

     assuages fears that the global energy transition will be thrown into reverse by the new US administration.
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    A Reformed WHO Should Make Its Case to America

    Gordon Brown wants to reassure the Trump administration that a revamped organization could serve US and global interests.
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    The Age of Multipolarization

    Tobias Bunde & Sophie Eisentraut think a better future depends on whether a world with more poles can find ways to mitigate dangerous divisions.
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    Will US Export Restrictions Work?

    Barry Eichengreen

    Perhaps US efforts to cut off China’s access to advanced semiconductors will be more successful than analogous restrictions on tech exports to France in the 1960s. But we now have at least one data point – DeepSeek – that suggests otherwise.

     questions the effectiveness of efforts to limit China’s access to advanced semiconductors.

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