The Power of Ideas: Cuba's Efforts to Shape Debate in Latin America

By Armando Chaguaceda and Maria Werlau Joseph Nye, who coined the post-Cold War concept of “soft power,” explained: “A country’s soft power can come from three resources: its culture… its political values… and its foreign policies… Like any form of power, it can be wielded for good ...

An Intelligent Human Rights Agenda for Artificial Intelligence

By Eileen Donahoe and Megan MacDuffee Metzger Around the world, concern about the consequences of our growing reliance upon artificial intelligence (AI) is rising. Perhaps the darkest concerns relate to development of AI by authoritarian regimes, some of which are devoting massive resources toward a ...

Social Media and Risks to Digital Freedom: A Conversation with Ronald J. Deibert

In this episode, featured guest Ronald J. Deibert discusses the dramatic shift in perceptions of social media, which principally have been seen as providing space for free expression, democratic mobilization, and citizen empowerment.  Increasingly, however, a more problematic underside of social med ...

Digital Authoritarianism: A Conversation with Alina Polyakova

In this episode, featured guest Alina Polyakova discusses how authoritarian regimes have bet big on technology—including social media manipulation as well as new applications of artificial intelligence—as a tool to control political debate at home and disrupt democracy abroad. Alina Polyakova is the ...