Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property On the Global Agenda
Multilateral organizations are still working on how to design institutional frameworks to harness the rapid development of AI across the globe
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Regulating Privacy and Digital Identities in the Age of AI: The View from Egypt
Ensuring effective implementation of Egypt’s 2020 Personal Data Protection Law would help provide a roadmap to address privacy concerns in data-driven ventures
Governing AI Under Fire in Ukraine
Ukraine offers an opportunity to examine how democracies may balance innovation, accountability, and human rights in the age of autonomous warfare
Hybrid Writing: Authority, Ethics, Agency
Though generative artificial intelligence has facilitated the emulation of form, it cannot take responsibility for what is written. Agency remains at the heart of writing once all else can be automated
Silicon Borders: The Global Justice of AI Infrastructure
Washington uses ‘chokepoints’ to restrict global access to AI development, but this approach may threaten U.S. national security while creating significant moral dilemmas
The Future of Democracy in the Age of Deepfakes
AI-generated content has already begun to work against us, rather than for us. To ensure this technology brings benefits rather than harms, we must institute immediate changes
American Netizens Worry For the Future of TikTok
The temporary banning of TikTok in the United States in January prompted concern over the politicization of tech platforms. The two likeliest paths forward for TikTok represent alternate visions of the relationship between Big Tech and government
Society 5.0 and the Future Economies
We’re better-connected today than ever before—but has modern innovation created a new society altogether?
Will China’s E-commerce Reshape a Reopening World?
China’s advances in digital-buying make the nation a harbinger of how a post-lockdown global economy could look.
How to Deal with COVID-19 in Africa
Strengthening the capacity, the data networks, and the community response to win against COVID-19.
COVID-19: Lessons from the Black Death
In order to map our future, we may look to the past on how health threats changed societies … or did they?
Seeing COVID-19 as an Opportunity
Extremist groups will attempt to take advantage of the turmoil created by COVID-19—and it’s not the first time.
Can Arab Cities Be Eco-Sustainable?
Separating fiction from reality, and corporate interests from true innovation in the new “eco-cities” of the Middle East.
The AI Guru
How Affectiva CEO and cofounder Rana el Kaliouby harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to create social change
Thinking Arab Futures
Drivers, scenarios, and strategic choices for an improved Arab World
Beating Hepatitis C
New detection system uses robotics to identify the disease, cutting down on time and human error
What Tech Can Do for Arab Women
If the technology sector can ease constraints that have traditionally excluded Arab women from economic opportunities, then both tech and women will greatly benefit.
“People Need Tools”
Biz Stone and Evan Williams changed the way our world talks to itself when they co-founded Twitter five years ago. They spoke with Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson about the future of the Internet.