Plus, sustaining place-based economic development and the U.N.’s engagement on AI.
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More research and commentary Sustaining place-based economic development. Recent federal legislation authorized billions of dollars for place-based industrial development in U.S. regions looking to transform their economies, but congressional appropriations will likely not be sufficient, David L. Johnson and Mark Muro emphasize. The U.N.’s engagement on AI. Though the United Nations (U.N.) has a crucial role to play on artificial intelligence (AI), a single governance body should not be the only goal for global governance of this technology, write Cameron F. Kerry, Joshua P. Meltzer, Andrea Renda, and Andrew W. Wyckoff. |
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