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Four Battlegrounds by Paul Scharre

2021 United States Capitol attack, 3D printing, active measures, activist lawyer, AI winter, AlphaGo, amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics, artificial general intelligence, ASML, augmented reality, Automated Insights, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Boeing 737 MAX, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, business continuity plan, business process, carbon footprint, chief data officer, Citizen Lab, clean water, cloud computing, commoditize, computer vision, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, DALL-E, data is not the new oil, data is the new oil, data science, deep learning, deepfake, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Deng Xiaoping, digital map, digital rights, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, dual-use technology, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, endowment effect, fake news, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, future of journalism, future of work, game design, general purpose technology, Geoffrey Hinton, geopolitical risk, George Floyd, global supply chain, GPT-3, Great Leap Forward, hive mind, hustle culture, ImageNet competition, immigration reform, income per capita, interchangeable parts, Internet Archive, Internet of things, iterative process, Jeff Bezos, job automation, Kevin Kelly, Kevin Roose, large language model, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, military-industrial complex, move fast and break things, Nate Silver, natural language processing, new economy, Nick Bostrom, one-China policy, Open Library, OpenAI, PalmPilot, Parler "social media", pattern recognition, phenotype, post-truth, purchasing power parity, QAnon, QR code, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, recommendation engine, reshoring, ride hailing / ride sharing, robotic process automation, Rodney Brooks, Rubik’s Cube, self-driving car, Shoshana Zuboff, side project, Silicon Valley, slashdot, smart cities, smart meter, Snapchat, social software, sorting algorithm, South China Sea, sparse data, speech recognition, Steve Bannon, Steven Levy, Stuxnet, supply-chain attack, surveillance capitalism, systems thinking, tech worker, techlash, telemarketer, The Brussels Effect, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, TikTok, trade route, TSMC

., Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). 7Russia and China announced a “no limits” partnership: “Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development,” February 4, 2022, http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770. 8European nations are leaning into regulating AI: Anu Bradford, The Brussels Effect (Columbia Law School, 2012), https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1275&context=faculty_scholarship; Anu Bradford, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2020), https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190088583.001.0001/oso-9780190088583. 1. THE NEW OIL 11Power: John J.

Now Comes the Hard Part,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 15, 2020, https://www.phillytrib.com/news/business/tech-companies-push-for-nationwide-facial-recognition-law-now-comes-the-hard-part/article_fe78e04e-e8be-5aab-9402-00203a44510f.html. 111lawsuits against a slew of government agencies: American Civil Liberties Union, “ACLU Challenges FBI Face Recognition Secrecy,” news release, October 31, 2019, https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-challenges-fbi-face-recognition-secrecy; American Civil Liberties Union, “ACLU Challenges DHS Face Recognition Secrecy,” news release, March 12, 2020, https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-challenges-dhs-face-recognition-secrecy. 111government regulation is needed: Brad Smith, “Facial Recognition Technology: The Need for Public Regulation and Corporate Responsibility,” Microsoft on the Issues (blog), July 13, 2018, https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/07/13/facial-recognition-technology-the-need-for-public-regulation-and-corporate-responsibility/; “We Are Implementing a One-Year Moratorium on Police Use of Rekognition,” Amazon, June 10, 2020, https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/we-are-implementing-a-one-year-moratorium-on-police-use-of-rekognition; Jay Greene, “Microsoft Won’t Sell Police Its Facial-Recognition Technology, Following Similar Moves by Amazon and IBM,” Washington Post, June 11, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/11/microsoft-facial-recognition/. 111regulation could “strangle business”: Forbes Technology Council, “15 Unexpected Consequences of GDPR,” Forbes, August 15, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/08/15/15-unexpected-consequences-of-gdpr/#68020b3c94ad. 112“race to the top”: Anu Bradford, The Brussels Effect (Columbia Law School, 2012), https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1275&context=faculty_scholarship; Anu Bradford, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2020), https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190088583.001.0001/oso-9780190088583. 112AI regulations: “A European Approach to Artificial Intelligence,” European Commission, updated August 31, 2021, https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-approach-artificial-intelligence; “Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Laying Down Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and Amending Certain Union Legislative Acts,” Document 52021PC0206 (European Union legislative document), 2021, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?


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After Europe by Ivan Krastev

affirmative action, bank run, Berlin Wall, Brexit referendum, central bank independence, classic study, clean water, conceptual framework, creative destruction, deindustrialization, Donald Trump, eurozone crisis, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, illegal immigration, job automation, mass immigration, meritocracy, moral panic, open borders, post-work, postnationalism / post nation state, public intellectual, Silicon Valley, Slavoj Žižek, The Brussels Effect, too big to fail, Wolfgang Streeck, World Values Survey, Y Combinator

The EU developed institutional mechanisms of peer pressure and carrot-and-stick policies that have the capacity to prevent the backsliding of democratization in its new members. This grand expectation, however, has turned out to be wrong. The electoral victory of Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland and the “illiberal turn” in most of central Europe has forced many commentators to upend their view of the “Brussels effect” on the process of democratic consolidation in central Europe. In the view of political scientists James Dawson and Sean Hanley, marrying the process of democratization to the process of European integration has contributed to the emergence of fair-weather democracies in the East with political elites that lack genuine commitments to liberal values.8 Even more important is the effect of the European Union serving as a kind of safety net, which mitigates against risk-taking (keeping countries from advancing irresponsible policies) but incentivizes voters to support irresponsible political parties and leaders as a way of signaling disappointment and anger.


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The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order by Bruno Macaes

active measures, Berlin Wall, Brexit referendum, British Empire, computer vision, deep learning, Deng Xiaoping, different worldview, digital map, Donald Trump, energy security, European colonialism, eurozone crisis, failed state, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gentrification, geopolitical risk, global value chain, illegal immigration, intermodal, iterative process, land reform, liberal world order, Malacca Straits, mass immigration, megacity, middle-income trap, open borders, Parag Khanna, savings glut, scientific worldview, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, speech recognition, Suez canal 1869, The Brussels Effect, trade liberalization, trade route, Transnistria, young professional, zero-sum game, éminence grise

Fyodor Lukyanov, ‘Putin’s Foreign Policy: The Quest to Restore Russia’s Rightful Place’, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2016, p. 34, www.foreignaffairs.com. 3. James Reilly, ‘China’s Economic Statecraft: Turning Wealth into Power’, Lowry Institute Analysis, November 2013, p. 5. 4. William J. Norris, Chinese Economic Statecraft (Cornell University Press, 2016), pp. 62–3. 5. Anu Bradford, ‘The Brussels Effect’, Northwestern University Law Review (2012). 6. Mark Entin and Ekaterina Entina, ‘The European Part of Russia’s Geopolitical Project: Correcting the Mistakes. Part 2’, Russian International Affairs Council, 29 April 2016. 7. ‘Absorb and Conquer: An EU Approach to Russian and Chinese Integration in Eurasia’, European Council on Foreign Relations, June 2016. 3.