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Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology With Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt (Council on Foreign Rrelations)

Speakers Henry A. Kissinger Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.; Former U.S. Secretary of State; Coauthor, The Age of AI: And Our Human Future; CFR Member Eric Schmidt Cofounder, Schmidt Futures; Former...

Conflicts to Watch in 2022 (Council on Foreign Relations)

The Joe Biden administration is confronting several acute humanitarian crises this year amid growing tensions with China, Iran, and Russia, according to the Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) fourteenth annual Preventive Priorities Survey.  The survey...

How countries are leveraging computing power to achieve their national artificial intelligence strategies (Samar Fatima, Gregory S. Dawson, Kevin C. Desouza, and James S....

Using finely tuned hardware, a specialized network, and large data storage, supercomputers have long been used for computationally intense projects that require large amounts...

Rethinking technology policy and governance for the 21st Century (Nicholas Davis, Landry Signé, and Mark Esposito, Brookings)

Today’s major technology firms wield huge social and political influence across the world to the point that their actions, and the content they host,...

4 positive stories about global development prospects in 2022 (Homi Kharas, Brookings)

Amid a series of setbacks to global development in 2021—pandemics and lockdowns, hunger and conflict, debt crises and inflation—there were also some positive development...

Brace yourself for an even more unequal post-pandemic world: WEF (Al Jazeera)

The world is growing more unequal and the divergence, made worse by the pandemic, is sure to cause additional tensions, resentments and further complicate...

Suicide Attacks Worldwide in 2021: The Downward Trend Continues (Aviad Mendelboim, Yoram Schweitzer, Ido Gadi Raz, INSS)

Over the past five years there has been a clear downward trend in the number of suicide attacks worldwide, with a particularly sharp drop...

Glasgow: a tipping point for serious action (Anthony Burke, The Interpreter)

In a little over a week, the most consequential climate meeting in human history begins in Glasgow, Scotland. The Earth has warmed by up to...

The G20 and the road to recovery from the COVID-19 crisis (East Asia Forum)

When the G20 leaders first met in November 2008, they recognised that a recovery from the global financial crisis could not be orchestrated by...

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