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Getting the regulation of artificial intelligence right is one of the most urgent problems facing our species, and also one of the most delicate. AI has the potential to improve most aspects of our lives; Alphabet chief executive officer Sundar Pichai argues that its impact will be "more profound than electricity or fire."

With the reelection of the combative populist who's run the country for two decades, concerns are growing about Turkey's democracy and direction in the world.

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

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Nigeria needs a leader like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, without his dictatorial tendencies

Benjamin Netanyahu once talked of Israel becoming an economic leader, but his coalition agreements seem bound to prevent that ever happening.

BOSTON  —  China highlights a long-debated question about economic development: Can a top-down autocracy outperform liberal market economies in terms of innovation and growth?Between 1980 and 2019, China’s average annual GDP growth rate was over 8 per cent, faster than any Western economy, and in the 2000s, its economic trajectory exceeded mere catch-up growth (using Western

BOSTON — Are successful businesspeople more like heroes or villains? In fictional accounts, one can find plenty of examples of each, from Charles Dickens’s miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to Ayn Rand’s rugged individualist entrepreneur John Galt. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents privileged old money, with its ruthlessness and incapacity for empathy,

Gwede Mantashe  - who is the minister of both mineral resources and energy - had the choice of attending the oil conference in Cape Town and/or the Joburg Mining Indaba. He chose to attend the oil conference, where he and a bunch of Africa oil ministers had an enormous love-in.

President Joe Biden is working to create a manufacturing revival — even helping to put factory jobs in Republican territory under the belief it can restore faith in U.S. democracy. The latest development came Tuesday, when chipmaker Micron announced an investment of up to $100 billion over the next 20-plus years to build a plant…