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To harness AI’s “potential to increase prosperity,” governments should work in concert, write @alexolegimas, @elerianm, and James Manyika. “Washington can start by forming a U.S.-led coalition built around trusted partners willing to accept common safety and security standards.”
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“AI holds the promise of providing both the productivity boost and the tools to pave the way for discoveries that can address many of the problems weighing down aging, debt-ridden societies across the world,” write @alexolegimas, @elerianm, and James Manyika.
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“Harnessing AI’s potential to increase prosperity without destabilizing society requires coordination,” write @alexolegimas, @elerianm, and James Manyika.
“AI adoption risks repeating the mistakes of globalization.” Read @alexolegimas, @elerianm, and James Manyika on how governments can avoid a backlash to artificial intelligence.
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Read @alexolegimas, @elerianm, and James Manyika on how governments can “turn AI’s capabilities into broadly shared and enduring prosperity.”
“The potential of AI is a combination of the Industrial Revolution, whose general-purpose technologies transformed production, and the Enlightenment, which brought about inventions for making inventions,” write @alexolegimas, @elerianm, and James Manyika.
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“The way to ensure that society benefits from AI’s enormous potential while mitigating its risks is to make cooperation the clear choice,” write @alexolegimas, @elerianm, and James Manyika.
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“The Iranian regime does not think it can live with a U.S. presence in the Middle East, so it is willing to go full tilt to get the United States out,” writes Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar.
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Not all African countries will benefit from today’s investment boom—but those that attract sustained foreign capital “could see tremendous growth,” writes @JaredCohen.
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As artificial intelligence supercharges the threat of online disinformation, U.S. “politicians have been dismantling the government agencies designed to track foreign influence,” write @noUpside and @JoshAGoldstein.
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Instead of treating Moscow’s hybrid attacks as isolated incidents, NATO members should “identify patterns of Russian aggression that will trigger” a collective response, argues Julianne Smith.
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“Brazil is becoming the object of other countries’ security policies rather than the author of its own,” writes @MatiasSpektor. What explains Brazil’s waning influence?
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In a new episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” @kyleichan and @hlntnr discuss how the United States and China think about and approach AI. Listen here:
“The stifling political atmosphere Xi has created is draining Beijing’s ability to respond to emerging problems as earlier generations once did,” writes @CarlMinzner.
“Throughout much of history, the Red Sea connected societies on both shores, and today, geography is reasserting itself.”
Read @alanboswell on the Horn of Africa’s renewed integration with the greater Middle East:
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“All modern wars end in negotiated settlements,” write Stephen Biddle, @SamWinterLevy, and Yuri Zhukov. Success in combat can shape bargains, but it can’t preclude bargaining altogether.
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Michael Robbins, Amaney Jamal, and Mark Tessler discuss their recent @ArabBarometer survey, which found that “despite living in horrific circumstances, most Gazans want to remain and rebuild.”
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In a world without rising powers, violence will persist—but conflicts will be “unlikely to carry the global scope, ideological zeal, generational duration, and apocalyptic potential of hegemonic contests,” writes Michael Beckley.
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Syrians are suffering because their leaders are “short on economic expertise” and have rejected international borrowing, writes @AbuJamajem. How can the country begin to recover?
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“Iran cannot evict the world’s only superpower from the Middle East,” writes @AliVaez. “Yet it can keep damaging U.S. regional bases, bombing the United States’ regional allies, and disrupting international commerce.”
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