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On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century.…
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles,…
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