Tag: democracy

• 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 ›

• The Root of Haiti’s Misery:Reparations to Enslavers

  May 21, 2022

  Violence. Tragedy. Hunger. Underdevelopment. These bywords have clung to Haiti for more than a century. Kidnappings. Outbreaks. Earthquakes. The president assassinated — this time in his bedroom. How is it… more ›

• Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.

  April 17, 2022

  I’m from a fortunate generation. I can remember a time — about a quarter-century ago — when the world seemed to be coming together. The great Cold War contest between… more ›

• Ukraine Invasion Tests the Ties That Bind Putin and Xi

  February 27, 2022

  The two autocrats have brought their countries closer together than ever. But for China, the costs of Russia’s adventurism could be high. They visited a hockey rink in Beijing and… more ›

• Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley, Donald Trump, and Democracy to Make Billions, Tax-Free

  September 15, 2021

  In an exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography, the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed as just another rich guy desperate to keep his fortune from the IRS. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-15/peter-thiel-gamed-silicon-valley-tech-trump-taxes-and-politics more ›

• Big Tech Thought It Had A Billion Users In The Bag. Now It’s Being Forced To Make Hard Choices To Get Them.

  August 29, 2021

  Long viewed as the world’s biggest market for “the next billion users,” India is fast becoming Silicon Valley’s biggest headache. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/big-tech-thought-it-had-a-billion-users-in-the-bag-now-its more ›

• Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight

  August 21, 2021

  Not all battles can be won with language, arguments, conferences, or diplomacy. About the author: Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a fellow at the SNF Agora… more ›

• The Coup We Are Not Talking About

  January 31, 2021

  In an information civilization, societies are defined by questions of knowledge — how it is distributed, the authority that governs its distribution and the power that protects that authority. Who… more ›