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    New AI Germ Busters Can Also Bust Unions

    Yanis Varoufakis shows how an AI-driven biomedical breakthrough could rob workers of what little power they have left.
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    Governing the Unknown

    Kaushik Basu suggests a few principles to guide policymakers as they try to keep up with rapidly advancing technologies.
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    The AI Moment of Truth for Chinese Censorship

    Stephen S. Roach thinks the country is poorly positioned to capitalize on recent advances with large language models.
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    Why US Tech Giants Need Africa

    Nate D.F. Allen & Nanjira Sambuli explore the challenges American platforms must address as they seek to expand their presence on the continent.
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    AI, Democracy, and the Global Order

    Manuel Muñiz & Samir Saran explain why appropriate regulation of artificial intelligence requires multiple international agreements.
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    Journalism Fights Back

    Anya Schiffrin highlights initiatives to compel the major digital platforms to support public-interest news reporting.
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    Bridging the AI Regulation Gap

    Cédric O urges lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic to agree on how to oversee the rapidly emerging market.
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    Winners and Losers in the AI Arms Race

    Barry Eichengreen asks which countries will benefit from the advent of artificial intelligence, and which will not.
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    Technology for Me, Not for Thee

    Harold James is not surprised that market-dominant incumbents are the loudest boosters of a new techno-pessimist narrative.
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    Revisiting the Behavioral Revolution in Economics

    Antara Haldar assesses the legacy of the intellectual challenge to the view that rational self-interest guides our actions.
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    New AI Germ Busters Can Also Bust Unions

    Yanis Varoufakis shows how an AI-driven biomedical breakthrough could rob workers of what little power they have left.
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    Globalization’s Warring Narratives

    Harold James examines the analytical disagreements that are hampering management of an unavoidable phenomenon.
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    The Digital Economy’s New Monetary Imperative

    Piroska Nagy Mohácsi

    In a rapidly digitalizing world, central banks are staring down a future in which they may lack the tools necessary to manage crises, and in which they may no longer be able to protect their monetary sovereignty. They should recognize that digital currency is a source of institutional salvation.

    thinks governments must embrace central bank digital currencies or risk a fundamental loss of control.
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    Europe’s Climate Quandary

    Jean Pisani-Ferry assesses the inevitable trade-offs the European Union must confront in achieving its clean-energy targets.
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    Governing the Unknown

    Kaushik Basu suggests a few principles to guide policymakers as they try to keep up with rapidly advancing technologies.
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    Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine

    Oyeronke Oyebanji outlines what West African governments can learn from the development and distribution of the COVID-19 jab.
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    Climate Science Beats Climate Fatalism

    Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, et al. show that the more ambitious 1.5º target for global warming is still feasible – and more necessary than ever.
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    Turkey’s Pragmatic Islamist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami expects Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s latest electoral victory to have little impact on Turkish foreign policy.

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