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Amar Bhidé

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Amar Bhidé, Professor of Health Policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, is author, most recently, of Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known (Oxford University Press, 2024).

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  1. Is DeepSeek Really a Threat?
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    Is DeepSeek Really a Threat?

    Jan 30, 2025 Amar Bhidé explains what a purported Chinese AI breakthrough does and does not mean for the industry.

  2. The Boring Truth About AI
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    The Boring Truth About AI

    Apr 10, 2024 Amar Bhidé points out that the technology has long been following a typically diffuse and halting pattern of development.

  3. The Selective Sovietization of American Capitalism
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    The Selective Sovietization of American Capitalism

    Dec 31, 2021 Amar Bhidé thinks policymakers have enabled a dangerous – and familiar – misallocation of capital in the real economy.

  4. Why Is Immigration Different from Trade?
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    Why Is Immigration Different from Trade?

    Jan 11, 2019 Amar Bhidé calls for a pragmatic approach to migration that minimizes fears by managing risks.

  5. Corralling the Info-Monopolists
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    Corralling the Info-Monopolists

    May 14, 2018 Amar Bhidé argues that regulators should target data collection, not protection, by companies like Facebook and Google.

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    The Global South Needs to Own Its AI Revolution

    Kate Kallot explains how these countries can advance a community-driven approach to the emerging technology.
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    Africa’s Year of Warlords and Meddlers

    Adekeye Adebajo foresees growing instability and more foreign interference on the continent in 2025.
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    Playing at Democracy

    Kaushik Basu explains how a well-known children's game illustrates the logic of today's emerging oligarchies.
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    The Revolt Against Regulation

    Daniel Gros explains why the new push for deregulation in the United States and the European Union may not help either.
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    Donald Trump’s Misrule of Law

    Richard K. Sherwin

    By insisting on its own supremacy, the executive branch of the US government under President Donald Trump is effectively seeking to alter America’s constitutional framework of checks and balances among co-equal branches of government. Trump has no authority to execute this change, but that will not be enough to stop him.

     observes that the president's claim of supremacy over the courts amounts to tossing out the US Constitution.
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    Trump’s Looming Deficit Disaster

    Desmond Lachman explains why the US president’s trade tariffs and planned tax cuts are at odds with basic economic realities.
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    Governing AI for the Public Interest

    Mariana Mazzucato & Tommaso Valletti

    While AI could deliver profound benefits for all of society, it is likely to do the opposite if governments remain passive bystanders. Policymakers must step in now to foster a decentralized innovation ecosystem that serves the public good, and they must wake up to all the ways that things can go wrong.

     explain why the UK government’s recently released AI “action plan” misses the mark.
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    Putting the Trump-Modi Bromance to the Test

    Brahma Chellaney hopes that the US and Indian leaders take concrete steps to reset and deepen the bilateral relationship.
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    The Dark Side of EU Deregulation

    Alberto Alemanno warns that the bloc’s efforts to reduce bureaucratic red tape will do more harm than good.

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