By: Jennifer Korn Artificial intelligence increasingly dominates the global emerging tech scene, seeping into virtually every sector and revolutionizing industry after industry. On a trajectory of immense growth, the global AI market size was estimated…
Think again about China
By: Gregory Treverton - First Published in The Hill Even by the usual Washington standards, the current debate about China is remarkably caricatured. Indeed, it says more about us than about them, and, sadly, what…
Mark Zuckerberg, meet Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
BY JOHN WALCOTT, GREGORY F. TREVERTON, AND PARI ESFANDIARI First Published at The Hill In his dialogue, Phaedrus, the Greek philosopher Plato’s King Thamus argued that rather than aiding human memory, the Egyptian god Theuth’s gift…
Agenda for the Biden Administration
By: Gregory F. Treverton and Pari Esfandiari It is clear that the new Administration will be swamped in its first months by the urgent– trying to control the raging pandemic, distributing vaccines equitably, dealing with…
Data: Governance and Geopolitics
By: Gregory Treverton & Pari Esfandiari Big data is often perceived as the black gold of the twenty-first century. Despite its fundamental differences with oil, it is indeed as critical, a fact tragically underscored by the lack…
Data: Governance and Geopolitics
Gregory F. Treverton and Pari Esfandiari Big data is often perceived as the black gold of the twenty-first century. Despite its fundamental differences with oil, it is indeed as critical, a fact tragically underscored by the lack of…
The Arctic Experience
A study by the Global TechnoPolitics Forum's associate Paul Ross In the last years of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev deemed the Arctic, his country’s “extreme North,” a “Zone of Peace.” And so it has…
G20 Leaders Meeting
Riyadh will welcome G20 leaders to the 2020 Leaders’ Summit, as the culmination of the Saudi G20 Presidency, on November 21-22, 2020. Read more
Why data governance matters:
By Pari Esfandiari and Gregory F. Treverton Data governance may be a somewhat hackneyed phrase, but to the extent that data is governed, that governance is a byproduct in part of the governing of the internet. The World Summit on…