All commentary & analysis
Thu, Sep 3, 2020
What world post COVID-19?: A conversation with Mr. John Raidt
Mr. John Raidt, security and public policy expert and practitioner, discusses political dysfunction in the US and the need for democratic renewal in light of the pandemic.
Blog Post by Peter Engelke, Anca Agachi
Thu, Aug 20, 2020
What world post COVID-19?: A conversation with Dr. Conrad Tucker
Dr. Conrad Tucker, professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, explains how the pandemic is changing the conversations around higher education and emerging technologies.
Blog Post by Peter Engelke, Anca Agachi
Wed, Jul 29, 2020
What world post COVID-19?: A conversation with Dr. Joe Mascaro
Dr. Joe Mascaro, director of education and research at Planet, discusses the effects of the pandemic on the environment, and its implications for energy transitions and earth sciences research.
Blog Post by Peter Engelke, Anca Agachi
Thu, Jul 23, 2020
What world post COVID-19?: A conversation with Mr. Greg Lindsay
Greg Lindsay, director of applied research at NewCities, outlines the implications of the pandemic for the future of cities and shares suggestions for how communities could emerge from this crisis stronger than before.
Blog Post by Peter Engelke, Anca Agachi
Mon, Jul 20, 2020
What world post COVID-19?: A conversation with Dr. Kim Roberts
Dr. Kim Roberts, security studies expert, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed thinking around national security and the US role in the world, and outlines the uncertainties ahead.
Blog Post by Anca Agachi, Peter Engelke
Wed, Jul 1, 2020
Can AI and emerging tech boost African development?
The final roundtable of the Smart Partnerships Series focused on the African continent and how AI as well as other emerging technologies can be harnessed there for good.
Smart Partnerships Series by Julian Mueller-Kaler
Tue, Jun 16, 2020
AI, an accelerator of change?
Two digital roundtables with India brought together high-level experts to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and geopolitics of emerging technologies in the South Asian country. While the first focused on AI and health, the second centered on Sino-Indian relations.
Smart Partnerships Series by Julian Mueller-Kaler
Fri, Jun 5, 2020
Artificial intelligence principles: Avoiding catastrophe
An urgent challenge for the coming decade is to forge a global consensus to operationalize widely-shared ethical principles, standards, and norms to govern the development and use of artificial intelligence.
Timely Commentary & Analysis by Robert A. Manning
Mon, Apr 6, 2020
GeoTech and smart partnerships: potential AI & China futures
The Atlantic Council is honored to partner with the Rockefeller Foundation via a grant focused on data and AI efforts by China around the world. We started these activities in the middle of 2019 and they were part of a bigger plan to launch the new Atlantic Council GeoTech Center in 2020 – focused on the geopolitics of new technologies and advances in data.
Timely Commentary & Analysis by David Bray, PhD
Fri, Dec 20, 2019
Top ten risks of 2020
2020 will likely bear more resemblance to the 1930s, as some of the developments which did not reach a denouement in the past year cross the finish line. Several simmering conflicts, symptoms of a global system under strain from US President Donald J. Trump’s “anti-globalist” America First doctrine, could well reach breakpoints in 2020. This may include a shift from the mere corroding of multilateral institutions and US alliances toward total dysfunction.
New Atlanticist by Robert A. Manning, Mathew J. Burrows