Project Syndicate

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…

Maciej Kisilowski explains why three illegally appointed members of the Constitutional Tribunal were not removed sooner. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Instead of pursuing targeted taxes on billionaires, the United States needs to raise taxes on the capital income that feeds wealth, note Laura Tyson and @Lenny_Mendonca1. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The railroads, electricity grids, and internet outlasted the speculative bubbles that financed their rollout. AI could do the same, writes @Cambridge_Uni’s William H. Janeway. bit.ly/4f3oULo

California is about to vote on its Billionaire Tax Act, which would impose a one-time 5% duty on the wealth of an estimated 250 individuals with assets exceeding $1 billion. In Deep Dive: Oligarchy, @crisberechet (@TaxFoundation) warned that even seemingly low-rate wealth taxes aimed at a small group can distort economic decisions. Read it at the link. bit.ly/4e4irj1

Mario Draghi has documented the EU’s competitiveness crisis with devastating clarity. The @EU_Commission incorporated his findings into a “competitiveness compass.” But progress continues to lag, laments @anapalacio. project-syndicate.org/commen…

Although the old adage about “garbage in, garbage out” applies more than ever in an “agentic economy,” this framing could be dangerously simplistic, Shuwei Fang warns. bit.ly/4cK8WEX

Robust, sustained GDP growth can resolve most public debt problems. But this solution itself depends on a country's harnessing of AI and related technologies, @Nouriel points out. project-syndicate.org/commen…

California will soon vote on its Billionaire Tax Act, Proposition 40. In Deep Dive: Oligarchy, @mikemadowitz (@rooseveltinst) argued that taxing extreme wealth is vital to save democracy. Fortunately, he wrote, the design of such policies has vastly improved. bit.ly/3UrusZe

Recent estimates suggest that three-quarters of the clean-energy capacity that was in the works before @realDonaldTrump's return to the White House will still get built, note @LizBeckReynolds and Nathan Collett. project-syndicate.org/commen…

AI means very different things depending on what a society already has. In rich economies, it competes with expensive human expertise; but when introduced elsewhere, it supplies expertise that was never available, @carlbfrey explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The various donor countries supporting the current Ebola response must put aside their rivalries and pool their resources under a unified command. And that command must be African, Tom Achoki, Nebiyu Dereje, and Jean Kaseya explain. 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…

Many seem to assume that AI will favor whichever government has the largest model or the most data. But the real advantage lies with governments that can retain what they learn, Christopher A. Pissarides and @WhiteshieldP's Fadi Farra argue. 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…

At this point, it would hardly be surprising if the @realDonaldTrump administration openly switched sides and formally joined Vladimir Putin’s camp, Joschka Fischer observes. project-syndicate.org/commen…

.@genefrieda predicts that Brazil is in for a prolonged period of high inflation, currency weakness, high real interest rates, and mediocre growth. 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…

Public control is not just about government ownership. What matters is the purpose such tools serve, the conditions that policymakers attach to public support, and how success is measured, @MazzucatoM and @AnnaHopeEmerson write. 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 Kenneth Rogoff. project-syndicate.org/commen…