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Incubating Artificial intelligence: Regulating Intelligent Cars and Drones in the 21st Century
In February 2016, Google received a letter from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) stating that the artificial...
Silencing Voices of Russian Opposition
On Tuesday, March 15, The McCain Institute for International Leadership, the Atlantic Council and the Free Russia Foundation hosted a discussion on...
Different Technologies, Different Learning Rates: Policy implications for energy investments
The simplicity and universality of the experience curve (or performance curve) framework led R&D managers to apply it to everything from airplane...
Future of War Conference 2016
The Future of War Conference brings together a collection of experts to address key issues and challenges arising from the changing nature of conflict...
Climate Change: This Time, It's Personal
Personal narratives can provide the diversity of voices and values needed to effectively confront the complex challenges of a changing world. In a...
Human Trafficking Symposium
There are 4.5 million people trapped in forced sexual exploitation globally estimates International Labor Organization. The Human Traffick Symposium,...
Can Genetic Engineering Stop Zika?
In a matter of weeks, the Zika virus has gone from being a virtually unknown phenomenon to a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern.” And...
Can you be an environmentalist without embracing nuclear energy?
Thirty-nine years after the meltdown at Three Mile Island and almost five years post-Fukushima, nuclear power seems to be emerging from its long funk...
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
Geoengineering, the deliberate hacking of Earth’s climate, might be one of the most promising potential responses to climate change, especially in the...
Deploying Technology to Rescue the Past
As ISIS campaigns to eradicate non-Islamic cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria and developers throughout the world encroach on sites where antiquities...
How Human Do We Want Our Robots to Be?
Robots are starting to look suspiciously familiar. Increasingly sophisticated robots designed to resemble us are striking up more and more symbiotic...
2015 McCain Institute Highlights
In 2015, The McCain Institute hosted its third class of Next Generation Leaders – 12 remarkable individuals from 12 countries. Each NGL works at a...