Reining in AI Power
Only with the use of both ‘helmets’ and ‘reins’ can AI become a trustworthy assistant that people can rely on—one that amplifies human capabilities and ultimately serves humanity and society for the better.
Only with the use of both ‘helmets’ and ‘reins’ can AI become a trustworthy assistant that people can rely on—one that amplifies human capabilities and ultimately serves humanity and society for the better.
The global boom of Chinese micro-dramas is a sign that, in the digital era, cultural soft power does not have to be built upon big-budget productions. It can emerge through everyday entertainment consumed on smartphone screens around the world.
Kyrgyzstan-China relations have passed through three distinct stages—border stabilization, institutionalization and infrastructure integration—and are now entering a fourth: economic connectivity on a transcontinental scale.
Sanctions may sometimes support diplomacy, but they should never become a permanent substitute for diplomacy or a form of economic warfare without accountability, limits or a credible path to peace.
There is a difference between holding power accountable with verifiable facts and converting tragedy into a referendum on a country one has already decided to condemn.
There’s a movement toward more university autonomy, with the government giving universities more freedom in academic and financial matters, in tandem with new models of assessment that emphasize long-term impacts over short-term results.
China’s growing positive role and the hope it offers the majority disadvantaged by the Western-dominated global system demand China’s perspective in reshaping a better world.
General Motors will continue China-based production of Chevrolet cars for export, but the transformations that have occurred in China are taking place globally.
To foster meaningful international dialogue and avoid dangerous miscalculations, global analysts, economists and policymakers must move beyond shallow ‘ideology’ narratives.
Hangzhou does not offer a finished model, still less a future without contradictions. What it does show is that the direction of technological change is a political choice.
As global demand for clean technologies grows, China’s manufacturing capacity should be seen not as a risk but as a positive factor in driving the world’s industrial and energy transition.
Against the grand narratives of geopolitical rivalry and ideological confrontation, the ability of ordinary people to put food on the table and realize their potential may be the simplest and most fundamental aspiration of all.