If evidence of AI’s limitations starts to permeate the public consciousness during a market crash, more pessimistic tech sentiments could well undermine crypto hype as well, @AUWCL's Hilary J. Allen explains.

The cost of health care is one of the biggest problems facing the US government. But extending the expiring subsidies will make health care more expensive, not less, observes @AEI’s @MichaelRStrain.

Healthy democratic societies require public AI infrastructure. Otherwise, AI’s benefits will stay concentrated in the hands of a few large corporations and state actors, notes @PackardFdn’s @KellyKborn.

Whereas half of British private savings were once invested in British firms, now this figure has dropped to a mere 4%, notes @BlavatnikSchool's Paul Collier. https://t.co/55BL6dVgaH

For almost two years, the Russian army has not been able to mount any consequential offensive operations, and there are few signs of this changing, @carlbildt writes.

Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, today’s AI models undermine the very conditions that allow us to read and think for ourselves, write @AI_Radboud’s @o_guest and @IrisVanRooij.

No development strategy can succeed without investing in people. In PS Quarterly: What Works?, Nobel laureate @k_satyarthi argues that universal education is vital to progress; @NgaireWoods advocates cash transfers for the poor; and @Abebab warns against relying on AI to advance

Whereas the US has treated AI as a proprietary technology, China has approached it as a public infrastructure, explains Jeffrey Wu.

Not only does Silicon Valley believe that firms should be free to innovate anything they want, and that society should simply deal with all negative externalities, but this point of view is bolstered by the current tax code, notes Mordecai Kurz. https://t.co/JBDf2NQtk4

With natural disasters intensifying and political divides deepening, we must not forget that the post-war multilateral framework was developed precisely for times such as these, notes @JuanManSantos.

The super-rich and the politically powerful often cynically stoke nationalism to advance their interests, including to keep people fighting among themselves instead of mobilizing against inequality, points out @Cornell’s @kaushikcbasu.

Since US financial and military assistance for Ukraine has largely dried up under @realDonaldTrump, the entire burden now falls on the Europeans. This is no small matter, but it is manageable, @carlbildt explains.

Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that the Free Palestine movement that has taken hold in the US and Europe is harming Jews and Palestinians alike.

Economic crises often trigger political instability. With AI fueling worker displacement, governments must act before it’s too late, argues @PackardFdn’s @KellyKborn.

Since 1898, the US has engaged in numerous wars of choice born of idealism – and the assumption that they would be quick and relatively bloodless – that ultimately descended into brutality, observes Joe Jackson. But it never seems to learn its lesson.

The US military cannot save us from the political leaders we elect, @KoriSchake explains. In the American system, solutions to political problems must be civilian in nature.

Despite what should be obvious risks, US financial regulators continue to permit an expansion of leverage, as well as greenlighting the integration of traditional financial markets with leveraged crypto markets, @AUWCL's Hilary J. Allen warns.

We are all now living in a world threatened by shattering storms – both physical and ideological. But fatalism simply is not an option, writes @JuanManSantos.

Mordecai Kurz proposes that all AI-based products and services be taxed at 10% of their market value unless the companies offering them can demonstrate that they are “labor-supporting.” https://t.co/JBDf2NQtk4

What was once a contest of algorithms is fast becoming a contest of kilowatts, and China, more than any other country, is setting itself up to win, writes Jeffrey Wu on the AI race.