Security
Can the UN Keep Pace with AI?
Branka Panic reflects on the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the gaps that still threaten meaningful international cooperation.
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AI Governance
Agentic AI Is Not the Risk. Undisciplined Agentic AI Is.
Agentic AI has moved quickly from concept to reality. That shift brings real opportunity, but it also introduces new risks that many teams are not yet prepared to manage.
AI Governance
Essential Elements of AI in Education
From content delivery to human formation in the age of AI
AI Governance
‘Think of All We Love’ — We Are at a Perilous Moment When It Comes to Artificial Intelligence
A group of AI experts are warning we must ‘pace the frontier’
Security
AI Didn’t Begin with ChatGPT. It Began with Homer.
Artificial intelligence may be modern, but the questions surrounding intelligent machines are ancient. From Homer’s self-navigating ships to medieval automata, history offers enduring lessons about technology, power, governance, and human flourishing.
Security
Summary & Discussion on United Nations Preliminary Report on AI: Benefits and Harms of Artificial Intelligence for Civil Society
A discussion of the United Nations’ preliminary AI report and what its findings on AI benefits and harms mean for civil society and nonprofit organizations.
Security
Who Controls Foreign Policy and War in the Age of AI Agents?
As AI agents gain the ability to act autonomously, recent OpenAI, Hugging Face and Anthropic incidents raise an urgent question for foreign policy and warfare: how can states preserve meaningful control over decisions increasingly shaped by AI systems?
Security
Pete Hegseth Wants a ‘High T’ Department of War. I Have Questions
Our nation’s best military leaders did not have high levels of circulating testosterone, which might help to explain why they were so successful
Security
Act 2 Opened on AI. Is the Government Getting It Right This Time?
From taxation to national security, policymakers are showing signs of acting on behalf of the people, not AI companies
Geopolitics
Middle Powers in AI Diffusion: In the Shadow of Great Powers or Pioneers of a New Dynamic?
Microsoft’s Q1 2026 Global AI Diffusion Report reveals that the geography of AI adoption is becoming increasingly complex — with widening disparities and unexpected patterns among major powers.
AI Governance
India AI Summit: A Paradigm Shift in Global AI Governance
With 91 countries and over $200 billion in pledged investments, the Delhi summit shifted AI governance from security to impact — but questions of depth and durability remain.
Policy
European AI Standards: What CEN-CLC/JTC 21 Is Doing and Why It Matters
As the EU AI Act moves from legislation to implementation, standardization bodies are quietly shaping how AI will be built, tested, and deployed across Europe.
AI Governance
Fragmented Control, Collective Risk: Multi-Agent AI and the Coming Governance Crisis
Existing regulations fall critically short in addressing multi-agentic AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making, self-organization, and emergent behavior.
Geopolitics
Rare Earths Elements, Strategic Dependence, and the Limits of Decoupling
China controls 70% of rare earth extraction and over 90% of processing — reshaping U.S.–China tech competition into a contest over foundational materials.
AI Governance
Crossing the GenAI Divide: A CEO's Perspective on Why 95% of AI Projects Fail
Despite more than $30 billion in enterprise investment, 95% of AI initiatives are producing no measurable return. This is not a failure of technology. It is a failure of approach.
AI Governance
Generative AI Transformation Starts with Data, Not Models
Most generative AI initiatives stall not because the models fail, but because the foundation was never built.