Emerging Technology

Framing ethical perspectives

Emerging Technologies are technologies whose development and/or practical applications are still largely unrealized. Carnegie Council’s events, experts, and initiatives focus on the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies and aim to map the field, illuminate topics requiring further research, and build a diverse community of experts, with the goal of ensuring that these systems are developed and deployed in a just, responsible, and inclusive manner.

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Artificial intelligence, climate-altering technologies, and more

APR 9, 2024 Video

Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict

From Gaza to Ukraine, the military applications of AI are fundamentally reshaping the ethics of war. How should policymakers navigate AI’s inherent trade-offs?

MAR 27, 2024 Article

The Specter of EMP Weapons in Space

Visiting Fellow Zhanna Malekos Smith details the danger of electromagnetic pulse weapons. How can nations protect themselves from this catastrophic threat?

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Nuclear reactor in Delaware. Photo by <br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40769152@N00/446674057/">Jon Schladen</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

JUN 5, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Splitting the Atomic Energy Debate

Interest in low-emission nuclear energy has mushroomed alongside rising energy prices and fear of climate change. But the picture of a green future is clouded ...

CREDIT: Jacqueline Morris (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

FEB 12, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Creative Industries as Growth Engine

The cultural and creative industries are areas in which many developing countries enjoy some comparative advantage. The rise of the digital economy and the increasing ...

FEB 6, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Wiki Influence

This story reminds us that a community like Wikipedia's editors is vulnerable to manipulation by commercial interests—and that information is power.

USS Niagara (top) and HMS Agamemnon, the ships that <br>connected Newfoundland and Ireland with the first <br>trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.

JAN 31, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Send the SOS for Globalization?

Is globalization over, or just stuck in a gyre? From Russia to Venezuela, governments appear to be turning their backs on open markets, economic liberalization, ...

JAN 19, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Gross Domestic Innovation

OECD countries will need to be ever more innovative in order to adapt to a growing global workforce that is increasing in technological savvy. Rao ...

Xinhua News Agency. Photo by <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Xinhua_News_Agency.JPG" target=_blank>snowyowls</a>.

NOV 3, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Information Revolution Likely to Advance Free Speech in China

China’s government news agency Xinhua issued regulations in September that would make it the gatekeeper and revenue collector for reports from all news agencies ...

OCT 13, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Reversing Babel

Nikolas K. Gvosdev, editor of The National Interest, discusses the emergence of English as globalization’s lingua franca and the moral implications of greater ease ...

SEP 29, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Strategic Communications and the Web: Rapporteur's Summary

Rapporteur's summary of the presentations and discussions at Strategic Communications and the Web, an event designed to explore new ways that nonprofits can use the ...

Internet cafe with Linux-style penguin in Khotan, an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Photo by Colegota, 09/10/2005. Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Spain).

JUL 28, 2006 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Diffusing Censorship: Blogging in Iran

The 1979 Islamic revolution and subsequent takeover of the U.S embassy in Tehran isolated Iran from many countries politically and economically, but government censorship of ...

NOV 25, 1997 Article

Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): Technology and Social Justice

"How can we make ethics drive technology in such a way that the evil consequences are minimized and the good maximized?" In this insightful and ...