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A Coup in Niger: What It Means for Africa, U.S. and Partners

An eighth coup around the Sahel shows we need better responses to the world’s most unstable region. This morning’s coup d’etat in Niger only deepens the pattern of instability across Africa’s Sahel and damages what has been a rare process of fairly steady democracy building in the region. Niger’s democratically …

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Biden’s Legacy: The Axis of Tyrannies

A New World Order Dominated by China, Russia and the Iranian Regime, with North Korea Heading Up the Rear [T]he weak and possibly compromised administration of U.S. President Joe Biden appears to have enabled and empowered the autocrats of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, all of whom seem to …

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Can Brain Science Characterize Artificial Intelligence?

There is a new article in Nature, ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI, where the author wrote, “The most famous test of machine intelligence has long been the Turing test, proposed by the British mathematician and computing luminary Alan Turing …

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