AI Outperforms Traditional Methods in Controlling Disease Spread Between Prisons and Communities
A reinforcement learning AI model used by SHP researchers achieved high reductions in infections with far fewer resources used for testing and much less intense non-pharmaceutical interventions.
AI-augmented Class Tackles National Security Challenges of the Future
In classes taught through the Gordian Knot Center, artificial intelligence is taking a front and center role in helping students find innovative solutions to global policy issues.
Chorzempa & Huang write on China's rural human capital crisis stating that "no country with China's vast education and public health problems has ever broken out of the ranks of middle-income countries." The article references FSI Senior Fellow and SCCEI Director Scott Rozelle's book "Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise" throughout.
Southeast Asia Program Director Donald K. Emmerson compares responses across Southeast Asia to the February coup in Myanmar and reflects on the parallels and differences between the state of democracy there and in the United States.
Coronavirus variants are spreading in the United States, threatening to spark yet a new surge. Is there a good defense? NPR health correspondent Rob Stein talks to CISAC Senior Fellow David Relman.
As it is currently organized, the U.S. government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Innovation opportunities are slipping between Washington’s organizational gaps, and America’s enemies are too.
In an article recently published in the Food Sustainability Index, a publication of The Economist, Blue Food Assessment co-chair Roz Naylor emphasizes the need to develop comprehensive food policies that better incorporate food from aquatic spaces.
In 1957, Poland proposed the Rapacki Plan for the denuclearisation of Central Europe. While North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members attacked the initiative, Canada viewed it as a means to ease Cold War tensions. Canada’s efforts alarmed Western allies and helped lead to a second Rapacki Plan.
The U.S. and Russia on Wednesday extended the only remaining treaty that limits the deployment of nuclear weapons. But did the agreement go far enough? Rose Gottemoeller, a distinguished lecturer at Stanford University who served as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security during the Obama administration, joins Nick Schifrin.
Among the general population, however, researchers including Asia Health Policy Program Director Karen Eggleston find no evidence that additional care improves health outcomes.
On January 26, Tang Ning Reception Hall hosted a discussion on "China-US Education Prospects, Where Is the Current Road to Studying Abroad." The event was simultaneously webcasted on multiple platforms, and nearly one million viewers participated online.
According to Scot Marciel, former U.S. ambassador to Myanmar and Stanford visiting scholar at APARC, building a democracy is a difficult process that can be upended, particularly when the military is politicized and has its own agenda.
In the first of a two-part Q&A, FSI Deputy Director Kathryn Stoner discusses how Joe Biden’s foreign policy in Russia is a departure from the Trump administration.
“It is said,” a Japanese social theorist and educator, Yukichi Fukuzawa, wrote in his best-selling book An Encouragement of Learning (1872–76), “that heaven does not create one person above or below another.”
In 2019, as the Department of Defense considered adopting AI ethics principles, the Defense Innovation Unit held a series of meetings across the U.S. to gather opinions from experts and the public. Stanford University professor Herb Lin argued that he was concerned about people trusting AI too easily.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been starkly uneven across race, ethnicity and geography, according to a new study led by SHP's Maria Polyakova.
The Biden administration has chosen Martine Cicconi, Michael Sulmeyer, Tarun Chhabra and Varun S. Sivaram, four alumni of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, to serve in the White House.
News that the Biden administration will delay the seating of several Trump appointees to defense advisory boards is a welcome signal that incoming leaders recognize these groups are essential, not just patronage jobs. But the review needs to go much further than that.
