South Korea plans to reward civil servants who put artificial intelligence to work, including through points that apply to consideration for promotions and cash

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The Illusion of Control Decisions are perishable. The longer they take, the further they have to travel from source. The more expensive they grow, and les...

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

Identify green growth opportunities to generate prosperity by supplying what the world needs to decarbonize.

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In its radically incomplete form, the design and re-build of the Ginza Sony Park lends us a framework for exploring possible futures

Taking misinformation and cognitive decline seriously

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Initiative by the University of Chicago: “Papers have been the de facto unit of knowledge in science. But science is not static and a paper is not meant to be the final destination, especially in empi...

As the sun sets in Tokyo, its alleyways become illuminated by the lights of "sunakku" snack bars. But OrySnack is illuminated by something entirely different: the gentle, glowing eyes of six small hum...

What if we started investing in people before they ever had the chance to fall behind?

YouTube video by In Pursuit of Development with Dan Banik

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

YouTube video by In Pursuit of Development with Dan Banik

What if we started investing in people before they ever had the chance to fall behind?

Gieß den Kiez app shows trees in critical need of watering and can be adopted by other heat-stressed cities around the world

Inside Cameroon’s most overcrowded prison, a recording studio turned incarcerated men into artists. Its founders spent six years filming what it became.

Join Simon Sharpe's inaugural lecture exploring how new thinking on climate science, economics and diplomacy can unlock faster progress to net zero.

Join Simon Sharpe's inaugural lecture exploring how new thinking on climate science, economics and diplomacy can unlock faster progress to net zero.

Inside Cameroon’s most overcrowded prison, a recording studio turned incarcerated men into artists. Its founders spent six years filming what it became.

Gieß den Kiez app shows trees in critical need of watering and can be adopted by other heat-stressed cities around the world

In the period from 1994 to 2024, Japan’s family businesses matched or exceeded the returns of peers in the United States, Germany, and Canada while taking on far less risk. Their advantage came not fr...

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It is critical to focus on the reality of how AI is playing out for workers: to interrogate in real time how AI is actually impacting them, transforming labor and employment, and reconfiguring social ...

The setting is real. The people have been AI altered to maintain privacy

Q-Lab is the first multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to establishing questions as a field of study and practice, helping people and institutions navigate complexity and set better priorities.

Conventional satellite land-cover mapping routinely misrepresents smallholder agriculture—a systemic challenge I’ve highlighted in my TED Talk and in much of our research (e.g.

Q-Lab is the first multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to establishing questions as a field of study and practice, helping people and institutions navigate complexity and set better priorities.

Join us for hands-on sessions exploring whether AI-enabled tools can help us get better at disagreement.

Field notes on what's actually on the agenda in Nordic public sector innovation

The Hugging Face incident wasn't a rogue AI escaping its sandbox. It was a chain of poor human decisions. We need to stop talking about AI like mythology and start treating it like engineering.

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. Flor...

Public policies addressing urgent social and environmental challenges need to explicitly consider the diverse, often conflicting perspectives of the affected stakeholders. Despite computational decisi...

Bridi Rice & Mira Sulistiyanto Australian development cooperation finds itself buffeted by radical disruption.

Why so much field data ends up in a closet, and what it would take to change that.

Explore how liberation gardens redefine space, fostering community, memory, and transformation in architecture and landscape design.