AI development is concentrated in corporate hands, but community-controlled alternatives ‒ open, efficient, and democratically governed ‒ are already proving viable.
Latin America's data centre boom reveals that digital sovereignty depends less on legal declarations than on states' operational control over energy, water, and exit rights.
China is recasting artificial intelligence as a tool of infrastructure diplomacy, a strategic shift that confronts the innovation-led paradigm and navigates the risks of fragmented global governance.
Europe is losing its war on poverty because it is ignoring the new front: digital poverty.
The struggles of African professionals shut out of LinkedIn reveal how digital identity systems, if poorly designed, can erode rights and opportunities anywhere, even in Europe.
Codifying “by design” principles into policies may lead to contradictions.
What big tech’s latest sustainability reports say (and don’t say) about the true environmental cost of AI.
This op-ed explores how blockchain could catalyse a global, open alternative to the current scientific system.
This op-ed defends the Universal Inscrutability Argument by clarifying what legal explainability actually requires: justifying reasons for institutional decisions, not access to individual motivations. The argument holds that legal standards for explainability should be based on the latter, not the former.
Given the ubiquity of fairness as a normative criterion in tech policy, this op-ed warns of particular risks to its legitimising potential which may, in the long term, damage the standing of fairness as crowd-pleaser.