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The AI Revolution

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    In AI, Capital Wins Again

    Katharina Pistor shows why OpenAI’s efforts to preserve its founding non-profit mission never stood any chance.
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    The Jobless AI Future Is Still a Long Way Off

    Michael R. Strain explains why advances in artificial intelligence will not eliminate the need for human workers any time soon.
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    Preventing AI Nuclear Armageddon

    Melissa Parke warns that applying artificial intelligence to weapons systems compounds an already unacceptable risk.
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    Chinese Regulators Give AI Firms a Helping Hand

    Angela Huyue Zhang

    While China was an early mover in regulating generative AI, it is also highly supportive of the technology and the companies developing it. Chinese AI firms might even have a competitive advantage over their American and European counterparts, which are facing strong regulatory headwinds and proliferating legal challenges.

     thinks the rules governing generative artificial intelligence give domestic firms a competitive advantage.
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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.”
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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.
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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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    Petrostates Must Take the Lead on Climate Finance

    Ban Ki-moon, et al. urges oil-exporting countries to kickstart a program of green investment in the Global South at COP28.
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    Germany’s Debt Brake Is Breaking Its Economy

    Marcel Fratzscher warns that a flawed constitutional rule is undermining the country’s ability to pursue essential reforms.
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    Why COP28 Has Already Failed

    Marta Schaaf & Kristine Beckerle say that the UAE’s repression of dissidents and rights activists serves defenders of the climate status quo.
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    In AI, Capital Wins Again

    Katharina Pistor shows why OpenAI’s efforts to preserve its founding non-profit mission never stood any chance.
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    Justice for Climate Migrants

    Sameh Shoukry & Amy E. Pope urge leaders to take a holistic approach to addressing the sharp increase in weather-related displacement.
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    Antara Haldar on behavioral economics, development models, global governance, and more

    Antara Haldar advocates a radical rethink of development, explains what went right at the recent AI Safety Summit, highlights the economics discipline’s shortcomings, and more.
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    The New Normal for Central Banks

    Lucrezia Reichlin asks why the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank keep providing liquidity directly to banks.
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    The False Choice Between Palestinian and Jewish Liberation

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    The prevailing narrative that frames Israel as a colonial power suppressing Palestinians’ struggle for statehood grossly oversimplifies a complicated conflict and inadvertently vindicates the region’s most oppressive regimes. Achieving a durable, lasting peace requires moving beyond such facile analogies.

     rejects the facile moralism of those who view the ongoing war through the narrow lens of decolonization.
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    The Rage of the Outsiders

    Ian Buruma

    The far-right populist Geert Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands reflects the same sentiment that powered Brexit and Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016. But such outcomes could not happen without the cynicism displayed over the past few decades by traditional conservative parties.

     shows what Geert Wilders has in common with other ultra-nationalist politicians, past and present.

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