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Education, Training and Labor
Making a Case for the Right to Preschool
04.23.24
Read MoreHigh-quality early childhood education has life-long academic, developmental, and social impacts, but access to early childhood education differs substantially for children from different backgrounds. This disparity poses a complex issue: do children have a right to publicly funded preschool?
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Early Childhood Education Potential Is Still Highly Untapped
04.23.24
Read MoreAwareness about the importance of the early years is increasingly known worldwide, but effective system-level implementation is lacking. In order to ensure access to quality early childhood education for the most vulnerable children, effective structures, evidence, and political buy-in are essential.
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Science, Technology and Data
Interview with Daniel Dennett: AI, Free Will, and the Future of Humankind
04.20.24
Read MoreHKS Student Policy Review Senior Editor Chacier Alexander held a joint interview with Symbiotic CEO Riccardo Di Molfetta and cognitive scientist Dr. Daniel Dennett on his perspectives on the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence, the challenge of aligning advanced AI systems with human values, and whether AI consciousness or free will would be functionally different from their biological counterparts.
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Global Governance on Impact Investing and Accounting: A Strategy for Developing Global Standards
04.10.24
Impact investing can be a game changer in solving social problems. Yet, the lack of impact accounting standards enables investors without any social impact to disguise themselves as “impact investors” to improve the image of the company.
The Cross-Border Interoperability of National Digital Payment Systems as a Gateway to Economic Development
04.9.24
Enhanced coordination and cooperation between governments, financial regulatory bodies, central banks, and other industry stakeholders is needed to implement the vision of integrating national digital payment systems.
The State of Value-Based Care and Its Potential Effect on Maternal Health Disparities
04.9.24
The U.S. faces a maternal mortality crisis, particularly for women of color. We must take the tools and programs we know work, and broaden them to reach all women in need.
How Can Nigeria Divert Remittance Flows to Formal Channels?
04.9.24
Remittances play an instrumental role in Nigeria’s economy, yet, an estimated 50% of remittances are channeled through informal networks. Newly proposed strategies can enhance Nigeria’s remittance flows through formal channels.
Duty and Liability: A Case for Preserving Qualified Immunity
04.9.24
While qualified immunity is invoked sparingly, its existence provides breathing room for public officials, particularly law enforcement officers to do their jobs effectively.
Reviving Comstock: Unveiling the Anti-Abortion Strategy in Post-Roe America
04.8.24
The Comstock Act is a significant impediment to reproductive freedom and access to safe, effective abortions. Pro-choice stakeholders must recognize the urgency of addressing this outdated legislation that uses 1800s social standards to regulate the bodies of people in 2024.
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Science, Technology and Data
How are dramatic developments in science and technology changing the public sphere? Can data be harnessed for the goal of good governance? What is the future of privacy?
Interview with Daniel Dennett: AI, Free Will, and the Future of Humankind
04.20.24
HKS Student Policy Review Senior Editor Chacier Alexander held a joint interview with Symbiotic CEO Riccardo Di Molfetta and cognitive scientist Dr. Daniel Dennett on his perspectives on the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence, the challenge of aligning advanced AI systems with human values, and whether AI consciousness or free will would be functionally different from their biological counterparts.
Women and AI: Overcoming Potential Bias and Optimizing the Best of Both Worlds
04.15.24
Women and girls are essential to the efficiency of AI’s future. In order to optimize the full unique capabilities of AI, it is important that the full range and spectrum of women is represented at the different stages of AI development to deploy optimal AI solutions and efficiencies to address societal challenges and ultimately achieve social and economic progress.
The Cross-Border Interoperability of National Digital Payment Systems as a Gateway to Economic Development
04.9.24
Enhanced coordination and cooperation between governments, financial regulatory bodies, central banks, and other industry stakeholders is needed to implement the vision of integrating national digital payment systems.
Interview with Symbiotic CEO Riccardo Di Molfetta
03.13.24
At Symbiotic, Artificial Intelligence transcends mere automation. Under the guidance of Riccardo Di Molfetta, Symbiotic isn’t just a company—it’s a driving force propelling society toward a future where AI aligns with humanity’s highest values and principles.
George Orwell’s Dystopian World is Coming to Life and the European AI Act Will Not Stop It: The Collection of Emotional Data by AI
03.9.24
As AI-based emotion recognition systems proliferate with little regulation, our feelings are transformed into data that can manipulate us, threatening a dystopian future where our mental privacy no longer exists.
Stable Signatures: An Effective Route to Regulating AI-Generated Child Sex Abuse Material
02.5.24
In fall 2023, more than 20 young girls in a small town in southern Spain were targets of naked deep-fake images. Stable signatures may provide a solution.
Towards Human-Centered AI: How International Harmonization Can Help Prevent the Loopholes of AI Regulation and Black Markets for Malicious AI
07.15.23
As AI continues to reshape our world, forging a comprehensive legal framework becomes crucial to steer AI’s advancement in a globally responsible and ethically sound direction, which ultimately should be supported by customary international law so that the responsibility fall equally on all countries.
How Congress Should Regulate AI in the Short-term
07.14.23
Congress must take the existential risks of AI seriously and deploy pre-existing risk assessment tools and regulations to better understand, monitor, and mitigate those risks.
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