...Eva Erman; Markus Furendal Artificial intelligence is bound to have a significant impact on societies and global politics. Given that everyone is affected by the advent of AI technology, its development and deployment should arguably be under democratic control. This essay describes the global AI...

...Barry Naughton Since 2020, China has dramatically increased the ambition, scope, and resources of its technology and industrial policy. Besides devoting more resources, the government has also expanded direct intervention in the economy, creating new organizational forms in order to link...

...Rebecca Arcesati As strategic rivalry between Beijing and Washington centers on new technologies, a trend toward decoupling and deglobalization is challenging the global links upon which China’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector has relied for a long time. This means that Beijing’s AI development...

...Marcus Conlé In pursuit of technological development, China has created new organizations to promote innovation. This brief examines New Research and Development Institutes (NRDIs), which are designed to foster knowledge transfer to industry. NRDIs were pioneered in Guangdong province in the 1990s...

...Michael Laha Chinese President Xi Jinping has advocated for scientific and technological self-reliance amid increasing global tensions over emerging technologies. So far though, reforms to China’s innovation ecosystem have fallen short of the goal of developing domestic versions of many...

... of California 2024 industry innovation technology markets finance The dangers of ignoring political signals has become even more clear for investors following Beijing’s recent tech rectification campaign. 12 Since November 2020, China’s largest tech companies have been under intense...

...Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau China wants to become a science, technology, and manufacturing superpower by upgrading and modernizing its industrial base and concentrating the nation’s innovation resources around strategic priorities. However, it is difficult for the state to integrate innovation resources...

...Itty Abraham India’s space program attracted international admiration in 2023 for becoming the first country to successfully land a craft on the moon’s south pole. The program is now in its sixth decade and stands as one of India’s most successful technology missions, not least for the hard...

...Anirudh Krishna The rise of artificial intelligence and other new technologies has raised hopes that they might contribute to reducing poverty. History suggests that they need to be embedded in broader frameworks of institutions, regulations, and training. development poverty technology...

.... These efforts parallel a broader trend in state support for developing technological solutions to socioeconomic problems, such as social isolation and a deficit in care workers. The rise of companion robots has elicited excitement about potential futures of human–robot existence as well as concerns over data...

...Ben Williamson The rapid shift to online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the penetration of an algorithmic world view into education systems around the world. Promoted by a burgeoning educational technology industry, platforms that use algorithms to structure...

...David Chandler “Data-driven governance assumes the need for constant adaptation to change.” Fourth in a series on ways of governing . © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Indonesia Rwanda governance technology development cities...

... technology war crimes arms control 9 The progression from semiautonomous, unarmed supply robots to fully autono- mous weapons systems is likely to occur rapidly and with limited public scrutiny. The Coming of Automated Warfare MICHAEL T. KLARE In just two or three years, more or less, the US Army...

...Mary F. E. Ebeling Two books detail how global technology giants vacuum up all the data they can get on consumers, the better to serve them on a platter to digital capitalists and colonizers. The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West , by Payal Arora Harvard University Press...

... of California Barbara Prainsack health care precision medicine DNA genome genetic medical technology regulation privacy inequality disease data 11 This new way of thinking about health and disease has tangible implications for when and how health-care interventions are set in motion...

... engineering genetically modified crops Africa South Asia small farmers Monsanto technology transfer Green Revolution Burkina Faso pesticides cotton 305 Genetically modified crops alone are not enough to assure that smallholder farmers will prosper, but they can help to improve...

... of the University of California Ted Henken Archibald Ritter Cuba embargo US barack Obama raul castro prisoner exchange bloqueo auto-bloqueo technology telecom embassy deal growth economy centralization socialism perfect self-employed private sector small-enterprise paquete black...

...Joseph S. Nye, Jr. The rise of digital networks is diffusing power to new players. Fourth in a series on soft power. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Joseph Nye soft power information technology computers non-state actors...

...Sheila Jasanoff Scientific advances offer hope, but governments must cooperate to save the environment. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Sheila Jasanoff climate change technology environment cities geoengineering global...

... technology education inequality 26 Convergence presents great global challenges, but it also means escape from poverty for hundreds of millions and the creation of a vast new global middle class. Converging Economic Destinies uri dAduSh The economic convergence of large parts of the developing world...