19th PAM Plenary Session
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (25 February 2025)
Top of the Day Microsoft breakthrough challenges Australia’s quantum strategy (Andrew Horton – ASPI The Strategist – 25 February 2025) The global strategic landscape is being redrawn not on battlefields, but in the arcane realm of quantum physics. Microsoft’s unveiling last week of Majorana 1 is a technological bombshell: it is the first […]
Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (24 February 2025)
Governance and Legislation Putting Explainable AI to the Test: A Critical Look at AI Evaluation Approaches (Mina Narayanan, Christian Schoeberl, Tim G. J. Rudner – Center for Security and Emerging Technology – February 2025) Explainability and interpretability are often cited as key characteristics of trustworthy AI systems, but it is unclear how they are evaluated […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (24 February 2025)
Top of the Day China, US push quantum race forward with major chip advances in one day (Sujita Sinha – Interesting Engineering – 21 February 2025) China has taken a significant step forward in the global race for quantum computing supremacy. Researchers at Peking University have successfully demonstrated large-scale quantum entanglement on an optical chip, […]
CGS at the 19th PAM Plenary Session: Advancing Research, Dialogue, and Multilateral Cooperation
20 February 2025, Rome, Italy – The Centre for Global Studies (CGS) actively contributed to the 19th Plenary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM), generously hosted by the Speakers of the Italian Senate and Chamber of Deputies in Rome from 20 to 21 February. The Plenary Session brought together over 300 delegates, […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (19 February 2025)
Top of the Day Why Corporate AI Projects Succeed or Fail (Dylan Walsh – Stanford HAI – 18 February 2025) It’s a mad competition for AI talent. Job postings for machine learning and AI engineers increased 70-80% in the beginning of 2024 compared with 2023. Companies are offering new recruits substantial compensation and big budgets […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (18 February 2025)
Top of the Day Confronting Gendered Harm in Cyberspace is not a Matter of Social Justice — It’s a National Security Imperative (Pavlina Pavlova – Just Security – 17 February 2025) As the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Information and Communication Technologies (OEWG) convenes the 10th substantive session in New York, cyber […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (17 February 2025)
Top of the Day Responsible AI and Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict (Daniel R. Mahanty, Kailee Hilt – Centre for International Governance Innovation – 14 February 2025) While the Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy holds promise, its supporters should place greater emphasis on how the implementation of its principles […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (13 February 2025)
Top of the Day Cybercrime evolving into national security threat: Google (Jonathan Greig – The Record – 12 February 2025) Cybercrime continues to expand and evolve and has become a national security-level threat that is enabling more attacks by state-backed groups, Google warned in a new report. Released ahead of the Munich Security Conference, the […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (12 February 2025)
Top of the Day AI Action Summit (Paris 2025) Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet – https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2025/02/11/statement-on-inclusive-and-sustainable-artificial-intelligence-for-people-and-the-planet Opening Address by Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi at the AI Action Summit, Paris – https://www.mea.gov.in/Speeches-Statements.htm?dtl/39020/Opening_Address_by_Prime_Minister_Shri_Narendra_Modi_at_the_AI_Action_Summit_Paris_February_11_2025 UN Secretary-General’s remarks at AI Action Summit – https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2025-02-11/secretary-generals-remarks-ai-action-summit-scroll-down-for-english Speech by President von der Leyen at […]