Commentary
California Writes Public Deliberation Into Law
Engaged California is the nation’s first state-run deliberation program, and a new law aims to make it last.
News and Analysis
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Feature
As attacks on campus diversity programs grow, HKS researchers point to evidence that equity and inclusion programs strengthen higher ed outcomes
Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts may have a political target on them, but the scholarly literature is clear that they help universities recruit, retain, and teach a more racially diverse pool of talented students and faculty, says the Kennedy School’s Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
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In a tight labor market, some states look to another type of worker: Children
Featuring David Weil
Commentary
We Don’t Need to Reinvent our Democracy to Save it from AI
When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the regulation of its own technology.
Commentary
Crowd Counting Consortium: Echoes of Police Violence
Q+A
‘Generative CI’ through Collective Response Systems
How can many people (who may disagree) come together to answer a question or make a decision?
Q+A
Hacking to harm and heal democracy
In a new book, Bruce Schneier details how tricks, exploitations, and loopholes are benefiting those in power — and how a ‘hacking’ mindset can help us set things right.
Q+A
Youth without representation
Aksel Sundström explores how the absence of young adults in our governing institutions is weakening our democracy.
Digital Humanism: The Time Is Now
Digital humanism highlights the complex relationships between people, society, nature, and machines. It has been embraced by a growing community of individuals and groups who are setting directions that may change current paradigms. Here we focus on the initiatives generated by the Vienna Manifesto.
Commentary
How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
“… for all the consternation over the potential for humans to be replaced by machines in formats like poetry and sitcom scripts, a far greater threat looms: artificial intelligence replacing humans in the democratic processes — not through voting, but through lobbying.”