News and Event Highlights
News and Event Highlights
The Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, cowritten by IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Maria Ressa, is a first-of-its-kind independent scientific assessment of the capabilities, emerging opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence. It’s central warning: current safeguards cannot keep pace with the growth of AI’s capabilities.
IGP hosted a Rapid Response webinar with a panel of experts discussing the recently announced agreement between the US and Iran to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and detail a framework for sanctions relief.
Read the new report from the IGP's Technology & Democracy Initiative, AI Slop and the Information Ecosystem, by Jen Weedon, Camille François, and Jeremie Ponak.
Scholars of American democracy and policy practitioners convened at Cornell University to discuss how to rebuild the federal government in the wake of the erosion of democratic norms and institutions.
A panel of leading experts took stock of the summit and situated it within the broader currents shaping the US-China relationship.
High maternal mortality in the U.S. is preventable, according to advocates, physicians, policy leaders and executives, including IGP’s Ann F. Kaplan Women’s Initiative Director Jennifer Klein, at an Axios Future of Health event on May 13.
The Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia SIPA and the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University today announced a new task force focused on assessing the strategic rationale for US foreign assistance
On May 7, the Institute of Global Politics convened a panel examining the geopolitical, environmental, and economic questions surrounding deep-sea mining.
Workshop participants explored the potential causes and pathways of land and space-based scenarios that might trigger a wider crisis in space and how to avoid conflict escalation in this domain.
SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP) hosted Jean-Noël Barrot, French minister for Europe and foreign affairs, for a discussion on the evolving rules-based world order and Europe’s role in fostering international cooperation and stability.