In recent years, the global discussion on "AI ethics" has succeeded in mainstreaming key principles to limit the risks that would otherwise arise from the unrestricted and unconsidered use of artificial intelligence. But it may have overlooked a much more fundamental and uncomfortable question: What are the limits of "AI ethics"? This panel discussion, hosted by Senior Fellow Arthur Holland Michel, looks at this question and much more.

Following two previous reports, "The Public Responds" includes findings from two surveys taken in 2020 accompanied by critical insights from Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev. These engaged and intellectually curious citizens interested in international affairs shared their opinions on how they think the foreign policies of the United States should move forward in 2021 and beyond.

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, director of the Telecommunications Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union, joins AIEI Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen to speak about her career in telecommunications and her dedication to using connectivity as a tool to promote equality and fairness, particularly with respect to women and girls across the world. What does this approach look like in practice? How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted her work?

As the race for COVID–19 vaccines enters its next stage, we are faced with broad ethical challenges. How should countries plan for distribution and allocation? What can and should be done to bolster trust in the vaccines? Public health experts Ruth Faden, Nicole Hassoun, Clive Meanwell, and Reed Tuckson discuss these questions in this webinar moderated by Jeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

In the fourth and final installment of this series, host Margaret P. Karns speaks with Bertrand Ramcharan, former acting high commissioner for human rights. In this candid talk, Ramcharan discusses why he thinks the "UN human rights system is in crisis" and ahead of the 72nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he explains why it is "the rallying document of our civilization."

As social distancing guidelines continue into the Fall, Carnegie Council's events will remain virtual for the rest of 2020. In the meantime, we hope you will join us for this full slate of virtual conversations over the coming months. Click here to register for webinars on the racial justice protests in a global perspective, book talks with best-selling authors and journalists, and interactive discussions on changing narratives in U.S. global engagement and foreign policy.

If CDR is to have any prospect of preventing runaway global heating without also presenting other serious environmental and social risks, then policymakers, legislators, and investors need to get real now, write Chatham House's Richard King and Duncan Brack. This article outlines three key messages for the policy communities and how it interacts with more nature-based solutions.

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