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    AI-Augmented Disinformation Is NATO’s New Battlefield

    Ylli Bajraktari highlights the urgent threat that cognitive warfare poses to the international rules-based order.
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    The Digital Economy’s Growing Time Tax

    Diane Coyle explains why, instead of simplifying daily life, technological innovation is making it more burdensome.
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    Through this initiative, Project Syndicate – in partnership with 2040 World – provides a platform for experts, leading thinkers, and innovators to create a truly global dialogue to address the most pressing technology issues. AI Revolutions consists of two components – its eponymous commentary series and a number of summits bringing experts together at key moments throughout the year.

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    Embracing the AI-Energy-Climate Nexus

    Sultan Al Jaber touts the enormous potential of the emerging technology for reducing emissions.
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    Encouraging Work Is the Right Policy Response to AI

    Michael R. Strain explains why the advent of highly capable machines cannot deliver human flourishing.
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    Harnessing AI for the Common Good

    Lenny Mendonca urges policymakers to play a more active role in shaping the future of emerging technologies.
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    Can AI Foster a Global Consciousness?

    Jamie Metzl explains how the technology could help people incorporate a collective purpose into their traditional beliefs.
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    The High Cost of GPT-4o

    Angela Huyue Zhang & S. Alex Yang warn that OpenAI's new multimodal AI tool is designed to gobble up user data, much of which is copyrighted.
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    The Right Way to Regulate AI

    Joshua Gans argues that the key is to identify and reverse the technology’s unwelcome consequences soon after they appear.

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    Biden or Plan B?

    Ian Bremmer explains the nature and stakes of the perfect political storm now consuming the Democratic Party.
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    Britain's “Change Election” Changes Nothing

    Anatole Kaletsky explains why the biggest electoral upheaval in UK history will have limited economic and political effects.
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    The Supreme Court Is Shaking America’s Fiscal Foundations

    Aziz Huq sounds the alarm about a dangerous trend in US constitutional law that is showing no signs of abating.
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    Would the French Far Right Moderate Once in Power?

    Nouriel Roubini holds out hope that markets and European institutions might constrain a National Rally government.
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    The Global Implications of Iran’s Election

    Ana Palacio considers what a victory for the reformist candidate might mean for regional and international stability.
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    No Class War From Britain’s Most Working-Class Government

    Aaron Reeves & Sam Friedman

    Labour leader Keir Starmer’s incoming cabinet has more people of working-class origin than any British cabinet that came before it, and this remarkable feature will surely bear on policymaking. However, various countervailing forces will moderate any latent impulse to veer sharply to the left.

     explain how the socioeconomic backgrounds of Labour’s cabinet members will, and will not, bear on policymaking.
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    The Decline and Fall of the Petrodollar?

    Carla Norrlöf

    If Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the world’s other large oil producers were to shift away from settling their oil trade in dollars, the implications for other commodity markets, global trade patterns, and financial stability would be enormous. But how plausible is this scenario in the foreseeable future?

     considers whether Saudi Arabia would ever move away from invoicing its oil trade in US dollars.
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    Democracy, What Democracy?

    Ian Buruma warns that Donald Trump’s supporters have a different understanding of government by the people.
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    Britain’s Now-or-Never Moment

    Kaushik Basu explains why increased public infrastructure investment is needed to improve the country’s economic prospects.

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