AI Policy Briefs
Read our Academic Policy Briefs. They challenge important assumptions and break new ground.
When to Stop, How to Stop in AI
Humanity’s position on AI safety is akin to that of a child peering over the edge of a well.
At a time when public discussion of AI safety remains absent and regulatory mechanisms are not yet fully formed, this brief poses a twofold question: When to stop and how to stop in AI?
Ashley Hou, University of Ljubljana
Can AI Care?
The relationship between humans and artificial intelligence is complex and evolving. As the lines between human reality and digital data blur at an unprecedented pace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to define and contain the new roles AI is adopting across human society and in peoples’ daily lives. Steadily, the very innate human responsibility to empathise has been delegated to machines. Thus in this policy brief we ask a simple question – Can AI Care?
Jiyoon Kim, University of Oxford
Designed Without Her?
As the world meets in Geneva for the United Nations AI for Good Global Summit 2026, we are happy to present a Special Policy Brief on why inclusive AI requires Women in the Room. No AI solution can be successful if it leaves out 50% of humanity.
Let us convene and talk on issues that generate real-world impact. Let us ensure Women are present in the room when AI is designed and built!
Lucie Calléja | France
UN Global AI for Good Summit 2026
Whose Rules?
The European Union’s AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive and binding AI law, is now in force and deliberately extraterritorial: any system whose output is used inside the EU falls within its reach, wherever it was built.
While the African Union’s Continental AI Strategy remains largely aspirational and severely underfunded.
This brief explores the rules around AI governance in an AU-EU Framework.
Youness Lasfar, AI for AU-EU Cooperation
AI for Oceanic Food Systems
Food security in the Pacific is not an abstract policy discussion. It is tied to the land we cultivate, the ocean we depend on, the knowledge carried through families and villages, and our ability to respond when climate conditions change.
With artificial intelligence rapidly moving into agriculture, fisheries and public decision-making, the question before Pacific Island countries is not whether we should copy what larger countries are doing, but how to shape AI tools to meet our own needs, values and realities.
Kerinina Leaupepetele
University of the South Pacific, Samoa
Bioelectronics
What if future technologies move beyond processing information and begin interacting directly with nature itself?
What happens when machines can interact with biochemical and electrical processes in living systems?
This short academic primer looks at the emerging field of Bioelectronics, sketching out what is possible when intelligent digital and physical systems merge.
Alan Eduardo Ávila Ramírez
Bioelectronics and Nanotechnology Engineer
Cost and Price of Ai
Use of LAWS in the war with Iran and risks of Military AI
Since 28 February 2026, Israel and the U.S. have conducted the world’s first state led military attack campaign in which LAWS and Generative AI targeting platforms have been deployed at strategic scale against another state: Iran. These systems serve as central instruments of force in the ongoing war in the Middle East, one that has engulfed the entire region and created global disruption.
Policy Brief | 09 March 2026
Mutual Assured AI Malfunction.
The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) defined as nuclear annihilation, ruled the twentieth century. As the 21st century matures, a new structural reality is emerging, built not on fissile material but in code, compute, and data. Known as Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), the concept outlines a deterrence regime in which any state’s aggressive bid for unilateral superintelligence (AI) dominance will be pre-empted by adversaries through sabotage: be it cyber, covert or kinetic.
This Brief assesses how MAIM reshapes 21st century strategic stability and analyses specific implications for Indian deterrence architecture.
Race to AI Superintelligence
India U.S. AI Partnership
The Paper outlines the different AI initiatives that are now driving the new phase of Indo – U.S. relations. It maps out the significant operational and strategic convergence between the two major partners on artificial intelligence. Celebrating 250 Years of American Democracy.
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Smart Planning for the
Old Capital
Every monsoon, Delhi faces the same problem. A few hours of heavy rain can turn an important road into a waterlogged river.
This concise policy brief puts forward a practical policy framework, moving from reactive monsoon response to earlier, better informed action through AI-Enabled Waterlogging Management for Delhi.
Muskan Abbasi
Frontiers Original Research Article
Nucleus Accumbens Core Dopamine D2 Receptor-Expressing Neurons Control Reversal Learning but Not Set-Shifting in Behavioral Flexibility in Male Mice
This paper examines neural pathways in mice to investigate how they behave differently to rewards when the specific pathway is blocked.
1st Author – Jiyoon Kim, South Korea
