Explaining artificial intelligence in human-centred terms
Since AI involves interactions between machines and humans—rather than just the former replacing the latter—'explainable AI’ is a new challenge.
Covid-19 fallout takes higher toll on women
While women appear to be more resilient than men to Covid-19 in terms of health outcomes, that is not the case when it comes to the economic and social fallout.
Protests, the left and the power of democracy
Sheri Berman urges the American left not to squander the sea-change in public opinion of recent weeks by only preaching to the converted.
Pandemic deepens social and political cleavages
The coronavirus crisis has inflamed cleavages in democratic societies which will be difficult to heal.
Social commons: the social protection we want
Universal basic income would offer a deadweight subsidy to low-paying employers. The route to security for all lies in the concept of ‘social commons’.
A basic-income floor should be part of a recovery programme
With the UK’s social safety net full of holes, support has grown for a basic income to underpin a mean and means-tested benefits system.
Fiscal regimes and equality among states
Amid talk of a ‘Hamiltonian moment’, the Next Generation EU recovery fund recalls a later US Treasury secretary as a fiscal union emerges.
Why recovery needs to have children at its centre
The pandemic and the lockdown have had serious effects on children’s wellbeing. The EU recovery plan must ensure their specific needs are addressed.
The Covid-19 crisis: inflationary or deflationary?
Peter Bofinger warns especially German inflation-phobes that deflation is a greater downside risk in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Sweden, the pandemic and precarious working conditions
Most commentary on the Covid-19 death toll in Sweden has been on the absence of lockdown, yet privatisation and precarity in eldercare should really be in the spotlight.
Sweden must be ready to support an ambitious recovery fund
Rather than locate itself in the ‘frugal four’, Sweden should support a progressive recovery plan at the coming European Council.
Science and politics: a new alliance?
The pandemic has brought science and expertise to the fore in the public sphere, as an anchor of trust—and put the populists on the back foot.
American traumas
Karin Pettersson explores the deep faultlines of unexpurgated racism tearing the United States apart.
Artificial intelligence, healthcare and the pandemic
The coronavirus crisis demands a regulatory framework for the application of AI to protect public health without jeopardising human rights.
A citizens’ conference on the future of Europe
With agreement lacking on the future of Europe—even about the conference on that theme—it’s time to look to a European Citizens’ Assembly.