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Gender, Race and Identity
Women and AI: Overcoming Potential Bias and Optimizing the Best of Both Worlds
04.15.24
Read MoreWomen and girls are essential to the efficiency of AI’s future. In order to optimize the full unique capabilities of AI, it is important that the full range and spectrum of women is represented at the different stages of AI development to deploy optimal AI solutions and efficiencies to address societal challenges and ultimately achieve social and economic progress.
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Development and Economic Growth
Interview with Former Prime Minister of Jordan Omar Razzaz: Jordan’s Future
04.14.24
Read MoreOn March 27, 2024, HKS Student Policy Review Senior Editor Ala’a Kolkaila spoke with Omar Razzaz, former Prime Minister of Jordan, about a range of topics affecting Jordan and the region.
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International Relations and Security
Interview with Karen Donfried: Russia-Ukraine War
04.14.24
Read MoreOn April 12, 2024, HKS Student Policy Review Senior Editor John McQuillan spoke with Karen Donfried, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Global Governance on Impact Investing and Accounting: A Strategy for Developing Global Standards
04.10.24
Impact investing can be a game changer in solving social problems. Yet, the lack of impact accounting standards enables investors without any social impact to disguise themselves as “impact investors” to improve the image of the company.
How Can Nigeria Divert Remittance Flows to Formal Channels?
04.9.24
Remittances play an instrumental role in Nigeria’s economy, yet, an estimated 50% of remittances are channeled through informal networks. Newly proposed strategies can enhance Nigeria’s remittance flows through formal channels.
Reviving Comstock: Unveiling the Anti-Abortion Strategy in Post-Roe America
04.8.24
The Comstock Act is a significant impediment to reproductive freedom and access to safe, effective abortions. Pro-choice stakeholders must recognize the urgency of addressing this outdated legislation that uses 1800s social standards to regulate the bodies of people in 2024.
American States Are Quietly Embracing the ‘Baby Bonds’ Revolution to Fight Inequality
04.8.24
As inequality rises because of the combined curse of growing inherited wealth and the perpetuation of the generational transmission of poverty, baby bonds appear to be a powerful tool to tackle one of the major challenges of the 21st century.
The Volunteer Sector’s Looming Crisis
04.7.24
Governments need to get creative and make it easier for people to volunteer, as volunteer-driven organizations play vital roles in building great communities.
Ukrainian Heroism Amidst U.S. Political Challenges
04.7.24
The framing of the war in Ukraine as a U.S.-Russia proxy war has ultimately put the lives of over 40 million people at risk, as well as threatened the safety and security of the European continent.
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Science, Technology and Data
How are dramatic developments in science and technology changing the public sphere? Can data be harnessed for the goal of good governance? What is the future of privacy?
Women and AI: Overcoming Potential Bias and Optimizing the Best of Both Worlds
04.15.24
Women and girls are essential to the efficiency of AI’s future. In order to optimize the full unique capabilities of AI, it is important that the full range and spectrum of women is represented at the different stages of AI development to deploy optimal AI solutions and efficiencies to address societal challenges and ultimately achieve social and economic progress.
The Cross-Border Interoperability of National Digital Payment Systems as a Gateway to Economic Development
04.9.24
Enhanced coordination and cooperation between governments, financial regulatory bodies, central banks, and other industry stakeholders is needed to implement the vision of integrating national digital payment systems.
Interview with Symbiotic CEO Riccardo Di Molfetta
03.13.24
At Symbiotic, Artificial Intelligence transcends mere automation. Under the guidance of Riccardo Di Molfetta, Symbiotic isn’t just a company—it’s a driving force propelling society toward a future where AI aligns with humanity’s highest values and principles.
George Orwell’s Dystopian World is Coming to Life and the European AI Act Will Not Stop It: The Collection of Emotional Data by AI
03.9.24
As AI-based emotion recognition systems proliferate with little regulation, our feelings are transformed into data that can manipulate us, threatening a dystopian future where our mental privacy no longer exists.
Stable Signatures: An Effective Route to Regulating AI-Generated Child Sex Abuse Material
02.5.24
In fall 2023, more than 20 young girls in a small town in southern Spain were targets of naked deep-fake images. Stable signatures may provide a solution.
Towards Human-Centered AI: How International Harmonization Can Help Prevent the Loopholes of AI Regulation and Black Markets for Malicious AI
07.15.23
As AI continues to reshape our world, forging a comprehensive legal framework becomes crucial to steer AI’s advancement in a globally responsible and ethically sound direction, which ultimately should be supported by customary international law so that the responsibility fall equally on all countries.
How Congress Should Regulate AI in the Short-term
07.14.23
Congress must take the existential risks of AI seriously and deploy pre-existing risk assessment tools and regulations to better understand, monitor, and mitigate those risks.
The Importance of Aggregate Climate Data for Global Climate Progress From Emerging Economies
06.28.23
Harmonized data lies at the heart of the climate agenda, but do we pay enough attention to the development of the figures that we see? Do we ever question how the figures are calculated?
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