Democracy, Control, or Competitiveness: The AI Trilemma
A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.
Piergiuseppe Fortunato
Big Tech and Populism Share a Common Enemy: Democratic Oversight
As artificial intelligence concentrates power among a handful of technology giants, the structural interests of those firms and of populist politics are quietly converging around a shared hostility to institutional constraints.
Amid anomie and rentier rule, a European left in crisis
The left has gone along with a shift of power to boardrooms and bureaucracies, undermining policy ambition and public confidence.
Rethinking globalisation in an age of crises
We need to find a path to peaceful coexistence and co-operation, fixing the social and economic damage of the last three decades
The life and death of Italian centrism
Former leaders from the Italian left have joined forces to form a centrist coalition.
The long shadow of market fundamentalism
In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.
‘Social media’, market power and the health of democracy
With the whistle blown on Facebook, Congress must allocate ownership of personal data to the person—not the platform—to allow competitive providers to emerge.
Fighting Covid-19 requires fewer patents and more state
Big Pharma has not been the real innovator in the fight against the pandemic and intellectual property rights must be reshaped to restore fairness.
Inequalities and democratic corrosion
The right question to ask is not if inequality threatens democracy but which inequalities matter.