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AI development and deployment will be safer and more beneficial if a wider range of countries can help shape it, observe @NewAmerica’s @GordonLaForge and Robert C. Orr. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Without fiscal adjustment, Brazil’s debt will increase by another ten percentage points over the next four years. But there is no sign the newly re-elected President @LulaOficial will show the necessary restraint, laments @genefrieda. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Robert Muggah and @IlonaSzaboC place @LulaOficial's improbable election victory in the context of recent electoral outcomes in Hungary and Serbia. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Nouriel Roubini identifies the factors that could turn rising public debt and interest rates into a serious problem. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Ngaire Woods thinks the US-China race to expand critical-mineral extraction could roil host-country politics. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca worry that a proposed one-time duty on billionaires’ assets will erode future revenues. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@ICEL_indo’s Grita Anindarini encourages policymakers to explore the possibility of a regional endowment fund that could redirect government revenue derived from mining and fossil-fuel production toward supporting community-based transitions. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Europe's prospects are bleak, partly because some of the most conspicuous steps toward European integration in the post-Cold War era remain incomplete, Harold James explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

China's tech and export industries may be booming, but they aren't creating nearly enough jobs to offset the collapse of its real-estate sector. That doesn't necessarily mean its geopolitical ambitions are doomed, writes @Harvard’s @krogoff. project-syndicate.org/commen…

AI training and inference has proceeded not by mining the internet, but by fracking it—plumbing every nook and cranny to see what previously unavailable resources might yet be extracted, Lucky Gunasekara writes. bit.ly/4j1ZK2C

Ana Palacio sees in recent protests a clash between rising expectations and policymakers’ capacity to generate prosperity. project-syndicate.org/commen…

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The great irony of this moment is that if European nationalists prevail in upcoming elections, Europe’s subjugation to outside powers becomes inevitable, notes Joschka Fischer. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Privacy law should challenge existing hierarchies of power, protecting those who need it most and have the fewest means to defend their rights, argue @UVALaw’s @daniellecitron and @UCILaw’s @ariezrawaldman in Deep Dive: Privacy. bit.ly/4spAG8l

Serbia's electorally successful student movement has reinforced an important finding in social psychology: people are less drawn by policy convictions than by a fusion of identity, recognition, and solidarity, @CEUDemInst's Filip Milačić observes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@realDonaldTrump's Shield of the Americas never addressed what the region really needs. Its far-right rulers’ most important task is to pull their countries out of the rut of stagnant productivity, Jeremy Adelman explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Companies counting on AI spending to rise forever may be in for a rude awakening. Those that fail to maintain adequate cash reserves could discover just how quickly the tide can turn, notes @Dambisamoyo. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@paulkrugman recently concluded that, when it comes to “weaponized interdependence,” the EU is more powerful than both the US and China. But @JFrankelEcon (@Harvard) thinks this conclusion rests on a faulty approach to comparing national GDPs. project-syndicate.org/commen…

A group of middle powers displayed a willingness to govern frontier AI development at the @UN General Assembly. While such declarations rarely lead to action, @GordonLaForge and Robert C. Orr think this moment could be different. project-syndicate.org/commen…

When it comes to AI safety, @wstv_lizzi and @simonhedlin see a problem: Neither the US nor the Chinese government is currently receiving the information it needs from its respective frontier AI companies. project-syndicate.org/commen…