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Summary The ultrarapid advancement of artificial intelligence has left both governments and citizens struggling to keep up with the pace of the technology revolution. Companies at the forefront of developing artificial intelligence are mainly interested in the financial rewards and less concerned with long-term effects of their technologies. That is why it is essential that […]

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Summary With the rapid development of technology, the intelligence community now has access to many new tools but it also faces entirely new threats and new defense challenges. Cyber-attacks by malign actors are increasingly likely to be directed at civilian rather than military targets. To prevent such attacks, cooperation is required not only among allied […]

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Summary Daron Acemoglu, professor of economics at MIT, argues that the development of generative AI technology should not be geared towards automating tasks and replacing human labour; instead, regulatory measures should be put in place to achieve more pro-worker AI development. Generative AI could help people in a wide range of occupations improve their skills […]

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Summary Daniel Susskind’s latest book A World Without Work – Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond (Allen Lane, 2020) was published just before the pandemic. In his book Susskind argues that technological progress will inevitably lead to a situation where there is less work to go around. Dr Daniel Susskind is a Research Professor […]

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Summary In economics, general-purpose technology refers to inventions that provide a wide variety of uses, enable many new applications, and have a transformative impact on society. In human history, such technologies have included writing, railways and the internet. The latest addition to the list is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence applications, such as the so-called large […]

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Summary For a long time, computer vision represented the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research. Now, the advent of large language models has set the ball in motion and multiplied the number of AI researchers. There’s fierce competition for researchers, and universities are rarely able to match the offers made by big companies. Universities can’t […]

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Summary The revolution of the internet is approaching its next stage – Web 3.0. What is essentially different in this new paradigm is that data is owned by the individual, and stored in blockchains instead of being owned by big corporations. The metaverse can be experienced as a 3D virtual world. It can provide an […]

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Summary The digital world is often associated with something highly technical but in fact, digitality plays a significant role in our daily lives. Without cybersecurity, there would be no digital life as we know it.    We are all responsible for cybersecurity. As cyber permeates every aspect of our lives, cyber defence and the need to […]

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Summary The impact of new technologies – particularly on industrial work – has been studied at length, often from the perspective of displacement, that is, on the assumption that technology will replace certain routine jobs and give way to new, more demanding jobs. A recent study measured specific impacts at the company level and concluded […]

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Summary While digital technologies are rapidly advancing, ways of governing remain largely unchanged. Our private life may be very digitalized whereas government services continue to function in an analogical way. Slow societal change combined with fast technological developments threaten to accumulate the same old societal problems, just on a much larger scale. International affairs advisory […]

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