Tag: democracy

• Welcome To The ‘Turbulent Twenties’

  May 21, 2023

  Our model is based on the fact that across history, what creates the risk of political instability is the behavior of elites, who all too often react to long-term increases… more ›

• Liberty under attack from enemies within

  March 25, 2023

  It is easy to look around the world at the building tensions and think that the greatest enemy of freedom comes from a nefarious, despotic regime in Russia, Iran or China. We should,… more ›

• China’s Censors Are Afraid of What Chatbots Might Say

  March 14, 2023

  ChatGPT has made quite the stir in China: virtually every major tech company is keen on developing its own artificial intelligence chatbot. Baidu has announced plans to release its own… more ›

• How Game Design Principles Can Enhance Democracy

  October 2, 2022

  Gamification — the use of ideas from game design for purposes beyond entertainment — is everywhere. It’s in our smartwatches, cajoling us to walk an extra thousand steps for a… more ›

• What it’s like being a woman in Afghanistan today: ‘death in slow motion’

  July 30, 2022

  On early Monday morning, just before the break of dawn, a 23-year-old Afghan journalist packed her bags, said quiet goodbyes to her family and left her home in a carefully… more ›

• Panama Papers Whistleblower Speaks Out: “Shell Companies are Putin’s Best Friend”

  July 23, 2022

  The anonymous whistleblower behind the bombshell leak known as the Panama Papers has emerged anew to warn how offshore companies are enabling Russia’s war machine. John Doe issued a manifesto weeks… more ›

• Deep catalog

  July 18, 2022

  Maybe you spell out the prompt on your way home, inspired by the shape of tonight’s traffic more ›

• Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI

  July 10, 2022

  Building artificial intelligence (AI) that aligns with human values is an unsolved problem. Here we developed a human-in-the-loop research pipeline called Democratic AI, in which reinforcement learning is used to… more ›

• The New Geography of the Russian Elite

  June 19, 2022

  Before the invasion of Ukraine, private jets taking off from Moscow flew to Paris, Milan and Geneva more often than anywhere else. Departures from Russia, Feb. 1 to Feb. 24.… more ›

• How a French Bank Captured Haiti

  May 23, 2022

  The National Bank of Haiti, on which so many hopes were pinned that night, was national in name only. Far from an instrument of Haiti’s salvation, the central bank was,… more ›