In this special episode of "Ethical Articles," Carnegie Ethics Fellow Christine Jakobson reads the article "Artifical Intelligence and Election Integrity in 2024," written by herself together with Fellows Travis Gidado and Hinh Tran.

You can access the full projct here: https://carnegiecouncil.co/cef-ai-democracy

This project was produced by a working group from the inaugural Carnegie Ethics Fellows cohort reflecting nearly two years of convenings, collaboration, and research. Each report in this special series examines a critical issue at the intersection of ethics and international affairs. The Carnegie Ethics Fellowship aims to develop the next generation of ethical leaders across business, government, academia, and non-governmental organizations.

More than half of the world's population is under 30 years old, yet young people are significantly underrepresented in key policymaking spaces. As the world confronts a multitude of existential challenges, fresh perspectives, greater transparency, and increased accountability are needed inside the halls of power now more than ever.

In the keynote event for Global Ethics Day 2024, this panel discussion and audience Q&A featured young leaders from around the world discussed how we might enhance youth participation and intergenerational collaboration in civic life to tackle the most pressing issues at the intersection of ethics and international affairs.

For more on this event, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/empowering-civic-leaders

From the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to UN Security Council gridlock and escalating climate and migration crises, multilateral institutions face unprecedented tests. Amid these challenges lies a unique opportunity for a new generation of transformational leaders to emerge—driven by civic duty and the values of the UN Charter.

In this special roundtable discussion hosted by Council President Joel Rosenthal, Tufts University's Professor Abiodun Williams, former director of strategic planning for UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, draws upon his extensive experience to speak about the essential leadership traits and strategies needed to drive institutional change and benefit those they serve. Williams' latest book, Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations, sets out the challenges that the secretary-general managed at a time of great change, and charts his ambitious efforts to reform and adapt the UN to the needs of the 21st century. 

For more from Williams, read his recent Online Exclusive "Global Justice in a Turbulent World" for the Ethics & International Affairs journal website.

For more, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/global-leadership-williams

Please see below the names and affiliations for those who offered questions during the event:

21:45 – George Shadrack Kamanda, Carnegie Ethics Fellow; Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the UN

29:43 – James Ketterer, Center for Civic Engagement, Bard College

34:39 – Eddie Mandhry, Trustee, Carnegie Council 

38:51 – David Passarelli, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR)

46:25 – Giovanni Bassu, New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

48:31 – Tinatin Japaridze, Eurasia Group

For Women's History Month, The Doorstep is highlighting steps being taken for greater global gender equality—a proposition that United Nations Secretary General António Guterres recently stated is "300 years away." What can societies do to increase the pace of change? The first lady of Iceland, author and entrepreneur Eliza Reid, joins co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to speak about Iceland's successes in attaining equality for all women and what cultural and policy frameworks can be exported to other countries in order to promote gender equality.

What does "infrastructure for families" (ascribed to Senator Elizabeth Warren) mean on the ground? What challenges are most pressing? How can the media be a better "window on the world"?

Now is the moment to extend human rights to encompass cognitive rights proposes Duke Law School's Professor Nita A. Farahany in her just-published book The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Clearly in the Age of Neurotechnologies. She introduces the vast array of devices already deployed that can sample various forms of brain activity. In her book and in this far-reaching Artificial Intelligence & Equality podcast with Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow Wendell Wallach, Farahany outlines how even limited cognitive information collected by neurotechnologies can be combined with other data to enhance self-understanding or manipulate your attitudes or state of mind.

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

New thinking is needed to ensure high-quality nature-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) offers genuine and long-lasting benefits to the climate and biodiversity, says Amy Luers, global director for sustainability science at Microsoft Corporation during a C2GTalk.

Large-scale removal through CDR technologies lies further ahead, although most of the basic technologies already likely exist. While Luers is not in favor of pursuing solar radiation modification, she says "I am very much in favor of enhancing our understanding of the risks and opportunities it presents, the governance challenges, and how decisions are made around this."

For more, please go to C2G's website.

At the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in December, President Joe Biden signaled that "Africa's success is the world's success" and promised visits by his senior leadership, including most recently First Lady Jill Biden, who traveled to Namibia and Kenya on a five-day trip. With 1.4 billion people, 43 percent living in urban centers, and a median age of 19, Africa is host to rising investment, growing private wealth and innovative tech and service sectors. The New School's Sean Jacobs, founder and editor of Africa is a Country, joins Doorstep co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to break down what is happening on the ground and the importance of the U.S. re-engaging Africa as the role of BRICS is re-imagined over the next decade.

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

In the last few years, democracies around the world have experienced dangerous brushes with authoritarianism. Countries such as the U.S., Brazil, and Sri Lanka saw their institutions bend but not break under the weight of illiberal forces. This virtual panel builds upon a special roundtable of essays on healing and reimagining liberal constitutional democracy published in the most recent issue of Ethics & International Affairs, the quarterly journal of Carnegie Council.

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

Building on a recent article from Anja Kaspersen and Wendell Wallach, Chatham House's Kate Jones says in this Ethics Article that human rights need to be central to a reset of technology and artificial intelligence governance.

To read this full article, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

Alex S. Vindman, former director for European affairs at the National Security Council, joins Doorstep co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to assess how the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war has affected U.S. global and domestic priorities. Will President Biden's historic visit to Ukraine's capital and meeting with President Zelenskyy further strengthen the Western alliance and consolidate U.S. policy towards Ukraine? What more can Ukraine expect from its allies? And in the end, what does victory for Ukraine—and the U.S.—look like?

With India now at helm of the G20 and a summit set for New Delhi in September, the South Asian nation is stepping up its star power on the international stage. Harvard Business School's Prof. Tarun Khanna, also director of Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, speaks with Doorstep co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin about why the world needs to recognize this Indian moment—and how this time it will stick. Khanna also explores American's doorstep connection to India and why this will continue to be a source of strength in the U.S.-India relationship.

Now that HIMAR and Patriot missiles as well as Leopard and Abrams tanks are on the way to Ukraine, NATO unity is at a high point, says Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal in this Ethics Article. But amid this historic and heroic resolve, and Russia's catastrophic war of aggression, something is missing—a concurrent offensive of diplomacy.

To read the article, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

In this AIEI podcast Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow Wendell Wallach and Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen are joined by Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Secretary-General Guterres' envoy on technology. During this engrossing conversation, they cover some of the most critical political, security, technical and ethical issues in the current, global discourse on technology governance and the need for new normative frameworks to mitigate against harmful technological applications and secure what the UN refers to as "Digital Commons." Gill also shares his unique insights from a long career as a multilateral diplomat and leader in digital governance and arms control.

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

In this episode of the AI & Equality podcast, Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen is joined by Elisabet Haugsbø, president of Norway-based tech union Tekna, to discuss her journey in engineering, the importance of cybernetics, digital surveillance, and how to stay resilient in the age of AI. They also explore the benefits of collaborating with professional unions in technology governance.

For more, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/aiei-haugsbø

Research on solar radiation modification is needed, especially in the Global South, to understand whether it could be an option for reducing climate risk, says University of São Paulo's Professor Paulo Artaxo during a C2GTalk. The planet is currently headed for 3°C global warming, yet the world is still not doing enough to phase out fossil fuels and net zero goals look extremely difficult to achieve.

Paulo Artaxo is a professor at the Institute of Physics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a member of the IPCC, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and he is vice president of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (ACIESP).

For more, please go to C2G's website.

What does it mean precisely when German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that the Euro-Atlantic community finds itself at "war" with Russia in Ukraine. In this Ethics Article, Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev discusses the technicalities of the West sending aid to Ukraine, the ever-growing risk of escalation, and the oddities of a conflict where all sides are economically connected.

To read the article, go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

Leading up to the one-year anniversary of Russia's second invasion of Ukraine, Rachel Ziemba, head of Ziemba Insights and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, returns to The Doorstep to discuss how the balance of power has shifted across the globe with co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin.

How has Russia managed to work sanctions to its advantage and grow its economy in 2022 according to the recent data from the IMF? Which countries are emerging as strategic partners with new supply routes? And if we can't we quit Russia, what does that mean for ending the war in Ukraine?

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

How can we ensure that the technologies currently being developed are used for the common good, rather than for the benefit of a select few? In this Ethics Article, Senior Fellows Anja Kaspersen and Wendell Wallach write that for effective technology governance to truly materialize, a systemic reset directed at improving the human condition is required.

To read the article, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

From racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization in the 18th century to the neoconservatism, neoliberalism, and unilateralism of the 21st century, ideology drives American foreign policy in ways seen and unseen. In Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations, edited by Ohio State's Professor Christopher McKnight Nichols, contributors trace the ongoing struggle over competing visions of American democracy.

In this virtual event, Professor Nichols speaks with Doorstep co-hosts Tatiana Serafin and Nikolas Gvosdev for a about the ideological landscape of international relations in the United States, from the American Revolution to the war in Ukraine.

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

Judah Grunstein, editor-in-chief of World Politics Review, joins Doorstep co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin for his annual review of global power shifts. The past 12 months saw economies rapidly pivoting to new markets and technologies as a result of the the Russia-Ukraine War, the protracted shutdown of China and its zero-COVID policy, and other supply chain disruptions.

How will this trajectory re-balance power between the Global North and Global South in 2023? Will competition for governance models lead to new ways of managing societies? Can the U.S. effectively engage with the world or will it fall behind?

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

In this far-reaching Artificial Intelligence & Equality podcast, Weill Cornell's Dr. Joseph Fins discusses with Senior Fellow Wendell Wallach the hype and realities surrounding contemporary neuroscience and neuroethics. He shares insights from his own seminal research on patients who may be mistakenly presumed to be in a vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state. Indeed, technology may be used to provide these patients with a way to communicate and a modicum of agency.

For more, plesae go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

Welcome to the first edition of Ethics Articles. Each week, listeners will have the opportunity to hear an audio version of selected articles from Carnegie Council's team of experts.

Today, Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal shares his latest column in which he identifies five key trends that will impact ethics and international affairs in 2023.

To access a free version of this article and more content from Carnegie Council, please visit carnegiecouncil.org. 

Although pundits and politicians pay close attention to measures like GDP or unemployment, almost no one tracks citizens' wellbeing. Gallup CEO Jon Clifton discusses this "blind spot" in his new book and in this virtual event with Doorstep co-hosts Tatiana Serafin and Nikolas Gvosdev. How did it lead to events like the Arab Spring uprisings or the election of Donald Trump? How can leaders close this important information gap and begin to incorporate wellbeing and happiness indicators?

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

Space-based data is quite useful for observing environmental conditions, but, as Zhanna Malekos Smith writes in this "Ethical Article," it also raises privacy concerns for vulnerable populations.

To read this article, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/space-based-data-malekos-smith

All Things Have Standing is a course in human psychology and the ethics of artificial intelligence and environmental law inspired by a powerful idea from the audio drama Spark Hunter—that all things have ethical standing. All Things Have Standing is presented by Carnegie Council in collaboration with Fighter Steel Education. Inspired by a futuristic story of a highly advanced AI experiencing existential crisis, All Things Have Standing explores, with leading scholars, AI and environmental ethics, the psychology and philosophy which underlie them, and the extraordinary challenges they raise for the global community. The first three parts, entitled "Our Stories," "Others' Stories," and "Earth's Stories," were published over the last few weeks. The final part, "Future Stories," is all available today in seven sections on this podcast. After an introduction from Professor Sheldon Solomon, scholar Wendell Wallach and Professor Shannon Vallor lead an exploration of the ethics of creating, deploying, and living with artificial general intelligence or AGI—machines with human level cognition and emotional intelligence, or better. Wallach is also Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow at Carnegie Council, where he co-directs the Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative (AIEI).

To watch the videos connected to this podcast, please go to Carnegie Council's YouTube channel.  

For more information on All Things Have Standing and to listen to the Spark Hunter audio drama please visit FighterSteel.com. 

In 2021 the Saami Council effectively stopped Harvard University's Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), which aimed to examine the behavior of stratospheric aerosols which could potentially be used to reflect back a portion of incoming sunlight to reduce global warming. In a C2GTalk, Åsa Larsson Blind, vice-president of the Saami Council, explains why she was in opposition, and underlines the importance of including indigenous people in climate governance.

Åsa Larsson Blind has been a member of the Saami Council since 2008 and was elected president in the period 2017-2019. She was the first woman elected chair of the National Sámi Association in Sweden 2019-2021, where she also was a board member in 2007-2011. Larsson Blind has been a member of the board of the Indigenous Peoples Secretariat under the Arctic Council and has many years of experience working in Sámi organizations, She lives in Övre Soppero in the Swedish part of Sápmi, is part of a reindeer herding family and holds an MSc in human resources management and development.

For more, please go to C2G's website.

All Things Have Standing is a course in human psychology and the ethics of artificial intelligence and environmental law inspired by a powerful idea from the audio drama Spark Hunter—that all things have ethical standing. All Things Have Standing is presented by Carnegie Council in collaboration with Fighter Steel Education. Inspired by a futuristic story of a highly advanced AI experiencing existential crisis, All Things Have Standing explores, with leading scholars, AI and environmental ethics, the psychology and philosophy which underlie them, and the extraordinary challenges they raise for the global community. The first two parts, entitled "Our Stories" and "Others' Stories," were published in November. The third part, "Earth's Stories," is all available today in eight sections on this podcast. After a recap of the previous podcast from Professor Sheldon Solomon, scholar and activist Dianne Dillon-Ridgley and legal respondent Kathy Robb discuss the care of our Earth and what that moral and legal landscape looks like.

To watch the videos connected to this podcast, please go to Carnegie Council's YouTube channel.  

For more information on All Things Have Standing and to listen to the Spark Hunter audio drama please visit FighterSteel.com. 

In the final episode of the AI for Information Accessibility podcast, host Ayushi Khemka talks to Dr. Eleni Stroulia and Dr. Martha White, both professors in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Stroulia is also the director of the university's AI4Society Signature Area, while White is the PI of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. They discussed the issues around AI, IA and gender, exploring both the pedagogical and industrial contexts, shedding light on how to situate gender equity as a guiding principle in AI and the different ways in which gender comes up in a computing science classroom. The conversation concluded with a discussion on the representation problem in AI and allied fields, while holding space for women's experiences in tech at large.

The AI4IA podcast series is in association with the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility 2022 Conference, which took place on September 28 to commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information. The AI4IA Conference and the podcast series are also being hosted in collaboration with AI4Society and the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, both at the University of Alberta; the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy at the Observer Research Foundation in India; and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica.

To access conference presentations, use this link.

Throughout the 20th century, European leaders from Stalin to Mussolini, from Gorbachev to Thatcher, and more, have shifted global narratives by sheer force of will. In Personality and Power, British historian Ian Kershaw attempts to understand these rulers and their outsized effect on history. In this virtual event, Doorstep co-hosts Tatiana Serafin and Nikolas Gvosdev speak with Kershaw on the lasting influence of these "builders and destroyers." How do today's leaders—Zelenksyy, Trump, Putin, Xi, etc.—compare?

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

All Things Have Standing is a course in human psychology and the ethics of artificial intelligence and environmental law inspired by a powerful idea from the audio drama Spark Hunter—that all things have ethical standing. All Things Have Standing is presented by Carnegie Council in collaboration with Fighter Steel Education. Inspired by a futuristic story of a highly advanced AI experiencing existential crisis, All Things Have Standing explores, with leading scholars, AI and environmental ethics, the psychology and philosophy which underlie them, and the extraordinary challenges they raise for the global community. The first part, entitled our "Our Stories," was published on this podcast feed last week. The second part of this course, "Others' Stories," is all available today in six sections on this podcast. Drawing on the work of classical and modern philosophers and inspired by Professor Silvia Benso and the Spark Hunter drama, Professor Chris DiBona presents a fresh way of looking at the people and things around us. 

To watch the videos connected to this podcast, please go to Carnegie Council's YouTube channel.  

For more information on All Things Have Standing and to listen to the Spark Hunter audio drama please visit FighterSteel.com. 

The fragmentation of international environmental governance creates challenges for states looking to create governance for solar radiation modification (SRM), says Dr. Marcos Regis da Silva, executive director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) during a C2GTalk. Policymakers in the Americas welcomed a recent IAI meeting which provided more information about SRM, and the state of its governance, to help them take decisions about the best way forward.

As IAI's executive director, Regis da Silva is responsible for the provision of strategic advice to high-level policymakers on issues related to global change and their socio-economic impacts. He also provides advice on linkages between the IAI's scientific agenda and global governance environmental frameworks, especially the Sustainable Development Goals.

Previously Regis da Silva held the post of chief, knowledge management and outreach services with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

For more, please go to C2G's website.

In a crossover collaboration with the national security and foreign policy podcast Rational Security, co-hosts Scott R. Anderson and Alan Z. Rozenshtein, both Lawfare senior editors, join Doorstep co-hosts, Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to assess the policy implications of the 2022 midterm elections. With over $16 billion spent on both federal and state races, millions more Americans going to the polls, and ballots still being counted, how are the Democrats and Republicans lining up to promote their respective agendas? Will President Biden be in pole position in upcoming G20 summit and beyond? Or will Republican priorities take over the conversation?

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

All Things Have Standing is a course in human psychology and the ethics of artificial intelligence and environmental law inspired by a powerful idea from the audio drama Spark Hunter—that all things have ethical standing. All Things Have Standing is presented by Carnegie Council in collaboration with Fighter Steel Education. Inspired by a futuristic story of a highly advanced AI experiencing existential crisis, All Things Have Standing explores, with leading scholars, AI and environmental ethics, the psychology and philosophy which underlie them, and the extraordinary challenges they raise for the global community.

This first part, all available on this podcast in six sections, is entitled "Our Stories." Professor Sheldon Solomon presents a study of our journey as humans, touching on psychology, self-awareness, the animal world, storytelling, and much more.

To watch the videos connected to this podcast, please go to Carnegie Council's YouTube channel. 

For more information on All Things Have Standing and to listen to the Spark Hunter audio drama please visit FighterSteel.com.

With less than a week to Election Day, Layla Zaidane, president and CEO of the Millennial Action Project, joins Doorstep co-hosts, Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin for a preview of changes ahead as young leaders step up to run for office and come out to vote.

With a 57 percent increase in the number of Millennial candidates compared to 2020 (about one out of six Congressional candidates nationwide are Millennials) and expectations of higher voter turnout for those 40 and younger, seismic changes are brewing. Are we entering a post-partisan world? Will 2022 be the year that changed not only the U.S. but also the world?

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org.

In this episode of the "AI & Equality" podcast, Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen speaks with Heather Roff, senior research scientist at the The Center for Naval Analyses. They cover the gamut of AI systems and military affairs, from ethics and history, to robots, war, and conformity testing. Plus, they discuss how to become alchemists of meaning in the digital age.

For more, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/aiei-roff

In this episode of the AI & Information Accessibility podcast, host Ayushi Khemka discusses issues around AI, law, and social justice with Isabela Ferrari, a federal judge in Brazil, and Dr. Kobi Leins, a member of the AIEI Board of Advisors. They talk about data security, digital access and cyber resilience, specifically in the contexts of Brazil and Australia, while touching upon what interested them to enter the field of AI in the first place. Ferrari and Leins also address the (im)possibilities of having accountable and equitable AI.

The AI4IA podcast series is in association with the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility 2022 Conference, which took place on September 28 to commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information. The AI4IA Conference and the podcast series are also being hosted in collaboration with AI4Society and the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, both at the University of Alberta; the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy at the Observer Research Foundation in India; and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica.

To access conference presentations, use this link.

The world needs to look at every option to stop dangerous climate change, but some potential approaches—like solar radiation modification—are undeveloped and could bring significant risks and unintended consequences, says Per Heggenes, CEO of the IKEA Foundation during a C2GTalk. That is why it is important to support broad-based discussions now, involving every part of society, in order to prepare for the tough governance challenges ahead.

Per Heggenes is the CEO of IKEA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Stichting INGKA Foundation, the owner of the Swedish home furnishings company IKEA. Since becoming CEO in 2009, he has presided over the Foundation's evolution into a global, independent, strategic philanthropy focused on fighting climate change and improving livelihood opportunities for the poor. He serves on numerous advisory boards for humanitarian and development organizations and has taken a special interest in helping reform the way the global community works to embrace the rights of refugees and migrants. In 2019, Heggenes was appointed by the UN secretary general to join the High Level Panel on Internal Displacement with the goal of developing durable solutions to protracted internal displacement.

For more, please go to C2G's website.

Almost a year ago, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act was signed into law by President Biden in response to consumer demands for more oversight of what we buy, how it is made and under what conditions. This one effort to bring more transparency to the murky world of global supply chains is now being overshadowed by companies' efforts to limit cargo data.

The Associated Press' Joshua Goodman joins Doorstep co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to discuss his latest reporting on the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee and recommendations that will hinder efforts to hold companies accountable in foreign supply chains. Will consumers keep up the pressure or will midterm election concerns overtake transparency efforts?

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org.

In this special Global Ethics Day event, Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal speaks with Michael Schur, creator of the hit TV show The Good Place and author of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question. They discussed how each of us can use ethics to improve our daily lives, the power of humor as a force for good, and how collective ethical action can help address the global challenges that impact us all.

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

In this C2GTalk, host Mark Turner talks speaks with Federal University of Rio de Janeiro's Dr. Roberto Schaeffer about carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation modification in the context of the IPCC pathways, with the goal of achieving the Paris Agreement.

Dr. Roberto Schaeffer is a full professor of energy economics at the Energy Planning Programme, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with some 150 master's and doctoral theses supervised so far. Schaeffer holds a Ph.D. in energy management and policy from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also worked as a visiting professor and lecturer on different occasions. Schaeffer has collaborated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1998, with the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) as a lead author of different UNEP Gap Reports since 2013, and as a lead author of different UNEP Production Gap Reports since 2019.

For more, please go to C2G.net.

Carnegie New Leader Geoff Schaefer takes an unscripted look at how to navigate the field of AI ethics with Joahna Kuiper. From her earliest days in theater, to her current work studying AI's impact on society at Cambridge University, Joahna provides unique insight into the different skills and perspectives the field needs and how to apply them. If you're looking to get started in AI ethics and responsible AI, this episode is for you. Along the way, the conversation goes deep into a number of case studies and conundrums we must all grapple with.

Joahna Kuiper originally entered the workforce in the realm of social work. In her circuitous path to what has become a decades-long career in technology, she explored psychology, graphic design, theater, and a few other subjects along the way, always adding new ways of seeing and thinking. Joahna has held a variety of leadership roles at technology companies, from enterprise business architect, to VP of IT, to XaaS product owner, to Industry Strategist. In fall 2022, she will add to that academic focus by beginning a research degree in "AI Ethics & Society" at Cambridge University in conjunction with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

For more on Carnegie New Leaders, please go to carnegiecouncil.org.

In this episode of the AI for Information Accessibility podcast, host Ayushi Khemka talks to Emad Mousavi and Paolo Verdini, both Ph.D. students at the University of Alberta, about the ethics and philosophy behind AI. They speak about the Ethics Bot, a project they co-run, and discuss questions of accountability and equity through and in AI.

The AI4IA podcast series is in association with the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility 2022 Conference, which took place on September 28 to commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information. The AI4IA Conference and the podcast series are also being hosted in collaboration with AI4Society and the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, both at the University of Alberta; the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy at the Observer Research Foundation in India; and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica.

To access conference presentations, use this link. 

For more on this episode, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

With one tweet about the outlines of a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, the world's richest man Elon Musk elicited a derisive response from Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, waves of accolades from Russian government sites, and tons of international press with scholars debating the merits of his proposal. Doorstep co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin ask Puck's Teddy Schleifer if this is a new billionaire model of international relations or a one-time global phenomenon.

How are monied interests shaping foreign policy ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in November? And where is dark money flowing?

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

From climate change to an ever-shifting global order, the list of challenges faced by the next generation of leaders and policymakers is long. This panel brings together contributors from the Carnegie Council's journal Ethics & International Affairs to explore how ethics can be used in the classroom to engage students and empower them to tackle the critical global issues of our time.

Panelists will draw on their roles as professors of ethics, international relations, and philosophy to discuss how they help their students to understand ethics not just as an abstract concept but as a practical tool that can improve daily lives. This talk features University of Washington's Michael Blake, University of Oxford's Yuna Han, and SUNY New Paltz's Ş. İlgü Özler, moderated by University of Utah's Brent Steele.

For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 

The application of AI in the health sector has been touted as a gamechanger for diagnostics, disease prevention, precision medicine, and more. But it hasn't always lived up to its promise, its transformational potential undermined by a mixture of common business hurdles and the human body's idiosyncrasies. Yet, the promise of AI-driven healthcare is still alive. In this episode, Carnegie New Leader Geoff Schaefer explores these past challenges and future promises with Jessica Lamb and Liz Grennan of McKinsey.

Liz Grennan is an expert associate partner in McKinsey Digital. She advises clients on a wide variety of risk, strategy and ethics issues related to data, AI/ML and technology. Previously at McKinsey, Grennan built and led the McKinsey Digital legal and risk teams globally.

Jessica Lamb is a partner in McKinsey's healthcare and public sector practice. Since joining in 2008, she has served clients across the healthcare industry, including payors, providers, and health care services. Lamb's work has primarily been targeted at creating health care value and fleveraging analytics to improve performance and outcomes.

For. more on the Carnegie New Leaders prorgram, please go to: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/initiatives-issues/carnegie-new-leaders

On World Refugee Day, Carnegie Council hosted a critical discussion on enhancing multilateral cooperation at the intersection of climate change and human mobility, the second event in the Council's "Unlocking Cooperation" series.

As extreme weather events and rising sea levels increasingly threaten coastal and island populations, particularly Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the panel will explore the urgent need for innovative and inclusive policies, guided by ethical considerations, to address climate-induced displacement and migration.

The discussion featured Ambassador Ali Naseer Mohamed, permanent representative of the Republic of Maldives to the UN, alongside experts from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The conversation was moderated by University for Peace's Ramu Damodaran.

For more, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/climate-change-mobility

Countries need to set aside their differences, recognize their interdependence, and negotiate as equals to tackle the climate crisis, says Sunita Narain, the director general of India's Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) during a C2GTalk. Nature-based solutions can play an important role, but they need much simpler accounting rules, and should be deployed in a way that benefits local communities.

Sunita Narain is the director general of the CSE and editor of the magazine Down To Earth. She plays an active role in policy formulation on issues of environment and development in India and globally. She has worked extensively on climate change, with a particular interest in advocating for an ambitious and equitable global agreement. Narain's work on air pollution, water and waste management as well as industrial pollution has led to an understanding of the need for affordable and sustainable solutions in countries like India where the challenge is to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth.

She was a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change and has been awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honor. In 2005, the CSE, under her leadership, was also awarded the Stockholm Water Prize. In 2016, Time magazine selected Narain as one of the most influential people in the world. She received "The Order of the Polar Star" award from the Swedish Government in 2017 and CSE was awarded the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for peace, disarmament and development for 2018. Narain continues to serve on national and international committees on environment including One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance set up by WHO/OIE/FAO.

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In this Global Ethics Review podcast, Liubov Tsybulska, a hybrid warfare expert and advisor to the government of Ukraine, discusses Russian disinformation efforts and how the conflict has changed on the cyber front over the last eight years. Tsybulska and host Alex Woodson also touch on how Ukraine's social media strategy is designed to engage with Western allies, the role of the United Nations, and the brutality of the Russian military.

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In this episode of the AI for Information Accessibility podcast, host Ayushi Khemka discusses the deep history behind artificial intelligence with László Z. Karvalics, founding director of the BME-UNESCO Information Society and Trend Research Institute. Their conversation touches on the Google/AI sentience debate, information preservation, social media, and the concept of "intelligence augmentation."

The AI4IA podcast series is in association with the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility 2022 Conference on September 28, which will commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information. The AI4IA Conference and the podcast series are also being hosted in collaboration with AI4Society and the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, both at the University of Alberta; the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy at the Observer Research Foundation in India; and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica.

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In two years, two-thirds of the world's population may face water shortages that will lead to crises of epic proportions from water refugees to potential armed conflicts over water supply. Yet the global water crisis does not typically get regular press attention. IHE Delft Institute for Water Education's Dr. Susanne Schmeier speaks with Doorstep co-hosts, Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin about how we can frame water crises discussions and begin to work on solutions.

What trade-offs must be made? Can the United States and United Nations, whose annual meetings begin in New York City next week, do more? How will next year's UN Water Conference set a new agenda?

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