Plus what made ISIS so successful and lessons on dealing with new technology.
| What America never understood about ISIS “The West rightly decries the Islamic State’s cruelty and violence—but ignores the governance vacuum that the terrorist group filled, at least for a time.” Shadi Hamid writes about how focusing on the Islamic State’s brutality to the exclusion of what made it successful is a mistake that could come back to haunt the West. Read in the Atlantic |
| History’s message about regulating AI “As we consider artificial intelligence, we would be wise to remember the lessons of earlier technology revolutions—to focus on the technology’s effects rather than chase broad-based fears about the technology itself,” former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler writes. Read more |
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