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An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services data center with residential areas visible in the background.

Energy Industry Boom or bust: How to protect ratepayers from the AI bubble

David M. Klaus, Mark MacCarthy

October 30, 2025

The painting shows a person standing on a staircase made of green and pink cubes, symbolising a Penrose staircase, in a cosmic environment. The person is reaching towards a glowing cross-shaped structure emitting binary code, representing AI's reach into the future. Surrounding the figure are outlined boxes showing various elements, such as glasses, medical tools, a self-driving car, and financial symbols, interconnected by white lines. The background is dark with star-like dots and features colour-coded boxes which mark different elements as relating to AI, human involvement, a combination of both, or an area uncharted by AI and humans.

Social Equity & Inclusion Beyond the blank slate: Why Black women’s trust is critical for equitable AI

Zarah Guillemet, Raj Korpan

October 20, 2025

Three European Union flags, blue with a circle of yellow stars, blowing in the wind in front of a large building.

Technology Policy & Regulation On European digital sovereignty and platform regulation with Marietje Schaake | The TechTank Podcast

Courtney C. Radsch, Marietje Schaake

October 20, 2025

Seventeen multicoloured post-it notes are roughly positioned in a strip shape on a white board. Each one of them has a hand drawn sketch in pen on them, answering the prompt on one of the post-it notes "AI is...." The sketches are all very different, some are patterns representing data, some are cartoons, some show drawings of things like data centres, or stick figure drawings of the people involved.

Artificial Intelligence The myth of the monolith: AI is not one thing

Cameron F. Kerry, Saurabh Mishra

October 9, 2025

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