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A consolidated index of published articles, proposals, and discussions
Articleai-societyAugust 15, 2026
Teach the Child Before Assisting the Task
AI can widen access to tutoring. Schools must still protect the unaided effort through which knowledge and judgement become the child's own.
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Articleai-sovereigntyAugust 15, 2026
Sovereign AI Needs a Public Scorecard
National model programmes should be measured by capability, cost, language, control and continuity—not the number of launches.
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Articleai-governanceAugust 14, 2026
Authenticity Must Begin at Capture
Deepfake labels are useful warnings. Democratic trust also needs provenance, competent forensics and remedies fast enough to matter.
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Articleai-governanceAugust 14, 2026
No Government Agent Without a Named Principal
Software may perform public work, but every consequential action must lead to an official who can stop, explain and reverse it.
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Articleai-infrastructureAugust 13, 2026
Every AI Constitution Has an Energy Clause
The politics of AI will be written not only in model rules, but in who supplies the electricity, water and grid capacity.
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Articleai-societyAugust 13, 2026
The Apprenticeship Is Part of the Job
AI may not abolish whole professions. It can still remove the junior work through which people learn to enter them.
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ArticlegovernanceJuly 21, 2026
The Rulebook and the Referee: AI Governance Splits in Two
China's WAICO writes the rules while America's Pax Silica controls the pipes -- and neither architecture has a seat for the governed. A democratic-legitimacy audit of the week AI governance split in t...
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ArticledemocracyJune 23, 2026
Security Surveillance Needs a Democratic Firewall
Surveillance is sometimes necessary for public safety. The democratic line is whether it protects citizens or becomes a weapon against lawful organising.
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Articleworld-affairsJune 23, 2026
Migration Needs Order Before Extremes Take Over
A serious democracy must manage migration with purpose, limits and humanity before unmanaged flows and unmanaged backlash damage society together.
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Articleai-labJune 23, 2026
The AI Standards Race Is Still Open
AI is still young. If open societies throttle their own labs or block global access, they may not slow AI. They may surrender the rulebook.
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Articleworld-affairsJune 18, 2026
Climate Adaptation Is Child Protection
UNICEF's latest warning asks us to measure climate adaptation in bridges, classrooms, clinics, drinking water and the number of children whose ordinary day has become unsafe.
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Articleworld-affairsJune 18, 2026
A Ceasefire Is Not a Peace System
The US-Iran memorandum may stop the firing, reopen Hormuz and buy sixty days for diplomacy. The deeper test is whether a pause can become a rule system before relief turns back into leverage.
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Articleai-labJune 18, 2026
The Last Human Decision
The first arms-control test of the artificial intelligence age is no longer theoretical. The question is whether the final decision to take a human life can disappear into a system no citizen can ques...
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ArticledemocracyJune 12, 2026
Democracy from the Inside Out: The Lessons of the V-Dem 2026 Report
As autocratization hollows out established democracies from within, the solution lies not in preserving existing institutions, but in expanding active, participatory citizenship.
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Articleworld-affairsJune 12, 2026
The Democratic Tech Alliance: Inside the EU-India Tech Business Forum
How cross-border partnerships between the world's largest democracies are shaping a rules-based, open digital future.
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Articleai-labJune 12, 2026
Democracy in the Algorithmic Age: Europe's Bid for Technological Sovereignty
Understanding the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) and the need for public oversight of critical digital infrastructure.
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ArticlegovernanceJune 8, 2026
The World's Referee Is Going Broke. Defending It Means Changing It.
The United Nations is warning that it may not make payroll by July, while its Secretary-General warns that the rules it exists to defend are eroding faster than at any time in decades. These two crise...
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ArticledemocracyJune 8, 2026
The World Still Wants Democracy. It Just Wants It to Deliver.
The largest survey of democratic opinion ever taken has just told us something the headlines keep getting wrong. People have not fallen out of love with democracy. They have fallen out of patience wit...
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Articleworld-affairsJune 1, 2026
Hormuz Is A Food Story Now
A maritime chokepoint is becoming a kitchen-table crisis. The Strait of Hormuz is usually discussed in the language of oil, tankers, navies, and geopolitics. But the deeper danger now runs through fer...
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Articleai-labJune 1, 2026
AI Needs A Jobs Compact, Not A Panic Cycle
AI will not simply "take all jobs" or "create abundance" by itself. It will reorganize tasks, bargaining power, wages, training, hiring, and confidence. If workers are expected to absorb the shock alo...
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Articleai-labJune 1, 2026
Compute Is Not Sovereignty. Resilience Is.
Every country now wants "sovereign AI." The phrase sounds strong, but it can easily become a fantasy. Real sovereignty is not owning every chip, model, data centre, dataset, and cloud platform. It is...
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Articleai-labJune 1, 2026
The UN AI Table Should Belong To Everyone
AI is neither a demon nor a deity. It is a powerful human instrument, built from imperfect human data and deployed by imperfect human institutions. That is exactly why the rules for it cannot be writt...
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ArticledemocracyMay 30, 2026
Citizens With Binding Power: The Quiet Mainstreaming of Deliberative Democracy
For decades, "citizen participation" meant a comment box and a thank-you note. A growing number of governments now hand randomly selected citizens real decisions over real money and real law.
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ArticledemocracyMay 30, 2026
The Forged Voice and the Free Vote: How Citizens Outlast AI Disinformation
Synthetic media can now imitate any candidate's face and voice for the price of a coffee, and it is already arriving hours before polls open.
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Articleai-labMay 25, 2026
The First Rulebook: What the World's First Binding AI Law Hands Back to the Citizen
On 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act becomes enforceable — the world's first binding AI law. Here is what it concretely returns to the individual: transparency, recourse, and accountability.
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ArticleenvironmentMay 25, 2026
The Plumbing of Cooperation: While One Nation Walks Out, Sixty-Four Build the Climate's Quiet Architecture
While the US exited the Paris Agreement in January 2026, 64 countries quietly signed 108 bilateral carbon-credit agreements under Article 6 — climate cooperation built without a hegemon.
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ArticledemocracyMay 25, 2026
Everyone Is Convening. Is Anyone Connecting? The Year Democracy Talked to Itself
Democracy forums are multiplying across Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The diagnosis is settled. What remains scarce is the infrastructure that connects parallel conversations into co...
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ArticleeconomyMay 25, 2026
The Invisible Wall: The Trade Barrier No One Legislated and No One Owns
UNCTAD's May 2026 report finds least-developed countries lose 10% of G20-bound exports not to tariffs, but to non-tariff measures and a lack of transparency.
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Articleworld-affairsMay 25, 2026
The Quiet Nuclearisation of Public Opinion: When Citizens Stop Trusting the Alliance
76% of South Koreans support going nuclear. Europe is closing defence gaps without the US. The proliferation risk of this decade begins with collapsing alliance trust.
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Articleai-labMay 8, 2026
Six Weeks of Autoresearch: What Happens When You Hand Sixty-Six Thousand Engineers an Autonomous Loop
Karpathy's 630-line autoresearch script went public on March 8. Today, six weeks later, the repo has 66,000 stars, 9,600 forks, and a small but visible body of independently reproduced work. The patte...
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