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GeoTech Cues

Jun 6, 2025

G7 leaders have the opportunity to strengthen digital resilience. Here’s how they can seize it.

By Sara Ann Brackett, Coley Felt, Raul Brens Jr.

At the upcoming Group of Seven Leaders’ Summit in Canada, member state leaders should advance a coherent, shared framework for digital resilience policy.

Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity

GeoTech Cues

May 21, 2025

To build tomorrow’s power grid, the United States should look to geothermal energy

By Sudeep Kanungo, Will LaRivee

Geothermal energy offers a promising solution for stable, reliable baseload power. But to unlock its full potential, the US government must take action to reduce the barriers to entry for industry.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

GeoTech Cues

Apr 1, 2025

DeepSeek shows the US and EU the costs of failing to govern AI

By Ryan Pan, Kolja Verhage

The West must urgently consider what DeepSeek’s R1 model means for the future of democracy in the AI era.

Artificial Intelligence China

GeoTech Cues

Mar 31, 2025

Trump’s sectoral-trade pivot: What it will take to succeed

By Mahnaz Khan

The United States is now seeing the dawn of a new sectoral trade policy—one that, if harnessed effectively, has the potential to strengthen US economic resilience.

Economy & Business International Markets

GeoTech Cues

Feb 4, 2025

Did DeepSeek just trigger a paradigm shift?

By Ryan Arant, Newton Howard

The release of DeepSeek's AI model may have far-reaching implications for global investment trends, regulatory strategies, and the broader AI industry.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

GeoTech Cues

Jan 21, 2025

Aging populations are being ignored in global tech agreements. That comes at a cost.

By Vijeth Iyengar, Gunay Kazimzade

The omission of aging populations in agreements at the UN and elsewhere is a missed opportunity to harness societal and economic gains.

Artificial Intelligence Resilience & Society

GeoTech Cues

Aug 6, 2024

The Great IT Outage of 2024 is a wake-up call about digital public infrastructure

By Saba Weatherspoon and Zhenwei Gao

The July 19 outage serves as a symbolic outcry for solution-oriented policies and accountability to stave off future disruptions.

Cybersecurity Internet

GeoTech Cues

Jul 29, 2024

A policymaker’s guide to ensuring that AI-powered health tech operates ethically

By Coley Felt

The private sector is moving quickly with the development of AI tools. The public sector will need to keep up with new strategies, standards, and regulations around the deployment and use of such tools in the healthcare sector.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

GeoTech Cues

Jul 26, 2024

The sovereignty trap

By Konstantinos Komaitis, Esteban Ponce de León, Kenton Thibaut, Trisha Ray, Kevin Klyman

When sovereignty is invoked in digital contexts without an understanding of the broader political environment, several traps can be triggered.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

GeoTech Cues

Jun 21, 2024

The sustainability questions policymakers should be asking about AI

By Tiffany J. Vora, Kathryn Thomas, Anna Ferré-Mateu, Catherine Lopes, and Marissa Giustina

Focusing on the sustainability of the AI industry offers an opportunity to steer entire industries toward contributing to a positive future.

Artificial Intelligence Energy & Environment