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.
In this interview, Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow on Contemporary Asia Yingqiu Kuang discusses her research on the transformation of global technology governance, focusing on how China and other East Asian economies are influencing emerging technical standards and redefining the rules that underpin digital innovation.
At a SCCEI Seminar economist Hanming Fang presented a sweeping new analysis of how China’s industrial policies have evolved over the past 20 years. Using LLMs, the researchers compiled, codified, and analyzed nearly 3 million documents to build one of the most detailed databases of industrial policymaking in China to date.
Twenty-two students from around the world have landed at Stanford ready to take on pressing issues in international security, space defense, environmental policy, and multilateral reforms.
At the second annual Sushi Hackathon, teams of student innovators joined technology professionals and entrepreneurs at Stanford to explore ethical AI and showcase AI-powered solutions to promote sustainability and efficiency in the fisheries industry.
In the second annual “Reimagining Democracy” webinar series, professor Francis Fukuyama dove into the root causes of democracy’s current crisis. He discussed how declining trust, civic disengagement among youth, and other societal challenges have weakened democratic systems and what actions are needed to revive them.
SPICE Curriculum Consultant Dr. Ignacio Ornelas Rodriguez shares his research into the legal and civil rights advocacy of key Mexican American leaders and institutions.
Professor Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, shares insights from his new book on Cold War lessons and the autocracy-democracy struggle.
CDDRL postdoctoral scholar Maria Nagawa examines how foreign aid projects influence bureaucrats’ incentives, effort, and the capacity of bureaucratic institutions.
In his new book, alum and CISAC affiliate Philip Taubman explores the paradoxes of the Pentagon chief who drove U.S. escalation in Vietnam while wrestling with private doubts.
With the [New START] treaty due to expire in February 2026, the Trump administration must decide how to respond to a Russian proposal to extend the treaty’s quantitative limits for one year.
The award recognizes their book, “Propaganda in Autocracies” (Cambridge University Press, 2023), as the best book in political economy published in the past three years.
In Nigeria, women are far less likely than men to attend meetings or contact leaders. Claire Adida’s research reveals interventions that make a difference.
