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The AI Revolution

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
  2. singer223_Justin SullivanGetty Images_selfdrivingcarsautonomousvehicles Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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    Self-Driving Cars and AI Ethics

    Peter Singer & Tse Yip Fai consider the implications of autonomous vehicles for passengers, pedestrians, and the planet.
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    Human Success in the AI Age

    Jamie Metzl predicts that we will co-evolve with the coming wave of technological disruption, just as we always have.
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    Whose AI Revolution?

    Anu Bradford refutes the argument that democratic governments cannot regulate artificial intelligence effectively.
  5. nixonsaintil1_Adriana AdieNurPhoto via Getty Images_climate change tech farming Adriana Adie/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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    Advancing Environmental Justice with AI

    Justina Nixon-Saintil shows how artificial-intelligence tools could help marginalized communities combat the climate crisis.
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    Managing the AI Backlash

    Edoardo Campanella thinks the growing resistance to automation could mirror the practices of the pre-industrial craft guilds.
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    Unlocking AI’s Potential for Everyone

    Diane Coyle identifies policies to ensure that the technology generates productivity, rather than more market concentration.
  8. born3_Kelly Born, former founding director of Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center_chatgpt Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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    Will Generative AI Make or Break Democracy?

    Kelly Born advocates careful regulation of how new tools are applied to electoral politics and information ecosystems.
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    AI and the Productivity Imperative

    Michael Spence sees vast potential for broad-based economic growth in novel applications of large language models.
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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

  7. fischer208_DrAfter123Getty Images_AIhuman DrAfter123/Getty Images
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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
  8. haldar25_BettmannGetty Images_friedmanreagan Bettmann/Getty Images
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

     looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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