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The Future of AI in the Global South
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Over the course of the last year, the Responsible AI (RAI) Fellows have engaged in a series of sessions investigating six key themes that will be relevant for the future of AI in the Global South: the environment, labor, education & epistemology, data collection and accessibility, AI as a governance tool, and human interaction with AI models.
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the extraordinary powers granted to the presidency continue to shape how and where the United States wages war.
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The nonproliferation tools built after 9/11 offer lessons for confronting a new generation of threats, from synthetic biology to artificial intelligence.
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While the U.S. and China battle over frontier AI capacity, the Global South and middle powers want to make sure that AI benefits them without increasing dependencies on foreign market leaders.
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Though AI integration in education in the Global South remains uneven, a number of regional case studies may provide inspiration. However, access to AI remains limited in many rural areas, where digital connectivity, education, and institutional capacity are often insufficient or contingent on infrastructure controlled by regional or Global North partners.
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AI infrastructure development in parts of the Global South has proceeded with limited or contested consultation of local and Indigenous communities, imposing significant local and environemntal costs.
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Amid optimism in the Global South, many leaders are demanding greater sovereignty over AI — whether at the data, model, and/or hardware layer. Recent UN proceedings emphasized the Global South’s desire that AI diffusion should not equate to increased dependencies on the Global North.
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Inspired by a recent Stimson publication, our July 7 event tackled a deceptively simple but critical question: Was the Iran war worth it?
Experts assessed whether the US achieved its stated objectives, weighing the conflict’s military, economic, and strategic costs, and examining its lasting implications for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Looking beyond the immediate aftermath, the panel explored the conflict’s overlooked second-order effects and the lessons that should shape future American decisionmaking.
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John Hudson, National security reporter, Washington Post
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Evaluating whether the Iran War is a case of alliance entanglement by the United States’ Middle East allies.
COMMENTARY
The war on Iran has strengthened hardline forces against reformists already weakened by the system, their own failings, and a dwindling middle class.
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The first job is to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz through a mutually acceptable process.
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Only decisive actions from the new government that ensure energy independence and state sovereignty can save Iraq from an impending crisis with far-reaching consequences
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The Net Assessment crew ponders the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Twenty-five years after 9/11 and five years after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, what lessons have we learned about warfare? Does our experience in Afghanistan, and now in Iran, demonstrate that the American military has an outsized fixation on lethality?
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