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Artificial Intelligence

AI adoption should not outpace our ability to control it

October 30, 2026

When central banks use AI, who is accountable?

October 15, 2026

Who moves next in the global AI race?

August 7, 2026

Sino-US AI geopolitical game theory

May 19, 2026

💊 Rethinking global governance with AI and deliberation 

April 7, 2026
March 30, 2026

How AI is becoming a core instrument of state power

Elif Davutoğlu AI companies often present their technologies as politically neutral. But as frontier models become intertwined with national security strategies, neutrality is giving way to a new reality: AI as a core instrument of state power, writes Elif Davutoğlu Read more
March 26, 2026

The invisible labour behind 'intelligent' machines

Soumi Banerjee Tech leaders compare AI’s electricity demand to the energy needed to ‘train a human’. In doing so, they judge people and server racks by the same dehumanising efficiency metric. Soumi Banerjee and Mo Hamza explain how this logic is most brutally realised in planetary AI supply chains; in the hidden work that makes 'intelligent' machines seem autonomous Read more
February 26, 2026

Digital resilience in the age of synthetic media

James Rice New technologies demand a shift toward a broader framework of digital resilience. Misinformation threatens to deepen inequality and fragment access to common knowledge. James Rice argues that digital resilience depends upon strategic interventions spanning digital infrastructure, international institutions, and citizen psychology Read more
February 17, 2026

​​​🌈 Hindu nationalists are targeting Muslim women via AI porn 

Sonia Sarkar Followers of the ‘Hindutva’ Hindu nationalist movement are using AI-generated pornographic images to degrade Indian Muslim women – including public figures. Their tactics, argues Sonia Sarkar, serve the movement’s wider drive to humiliate India’s 200-million-strong Muslim community  Read more
February 13, 2026

Synthetic dissidents: how AI protects dissent under repression 

Michal Malý Michal Malý and Asker Bryld Staunæs argue that synthetic dissidents mark a new form of opposition politics. In authoritarian regimes, AI avatars and chatbots can propagate risky speech without exposing a single, identifiable speaker. This can protect journalists and activists, but it also changes how responsibility, authenticity and repression work  Read more

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