Karman Lucero: Managing the Sino-American AI race

Also, Mohamed A. El-Erian, James K. Galbraith, and others on the causes and likely implications of recent stock-market volatility [View this message in a web browser]( AUGUST 9, 2024 This week in PS Longer Reads, Yale's Karman Lucero explains the limits and remaining potential of official and unofficial Sino-American dialogue on AI governance and guardrails. [Read now](. In PS Big Picture, Mohamed A. El-Erian, James K. Galbraith, J. Bradford DeLong, Kenneth Rogoff, and Dambisa Moyo examine the causes and likely implications of recent stock-market volatility. [Read now](. And in PS Say More, James K. Galbraith answers our questions about the US election, entropy economics, trade policy, and more. [Read now](. [PS Longer Reads: Managing the Sino-American AI Race]( [Managing the Sino-American AI Race]( By Karman Lucero The official Sino-American dialogue on AI governance will continue to face serious political and institutional constraints that will limit what is possible. But much more could be achieved through unofficial channels that connect experts from across both societies. [Read more]( [PS Summer Sale: Save 40% on all new Digital and Digital Plus subscriptions.]( [PS Big Picture: What Soft Landing?]( [What Soft Landing?]( with Mohamed A. El-Erian, James K. Galbraith, J. Bradford DeLong, Kenneth Rogoff, and Dambisa Moyo While stock markets have recovered somewhat from last Monday’s rout, investors remain rattled, fearing further volatility. What was behind the sudden selloff, and does it portend a period of escalating global economic distress – and even a US recession? [Read more]( [PS Say More: James K. Galbraith on the US election, entropy economics, trade policy, and more]( [James K. Galbraith on the US election, entropy economics, trade policy, and more]( James K. Galbraith says what it will take to improve Americans’ living standards, calls the concept of equilibrium a figment of economists’ imaginations, highlights a potential effect of tariffs that most textbooks do not anticipate, and more. Galbraith is Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author, with Jing Chen, of [Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production](. [Read more]( [PS. Subscribe to Premium to access PS Quarterly: Age of Extremes.]( [PS Longer Reads: Confronting the Organized Crime Pandemic]( [Confronting the Organized Crime Pandemic]( By Robert Muggah Cross-border organized crime constitutes a major and growing threat to peace, security, human rights, and sustainable development around the world. Although there appears to be some increased awareness of the problem, the policy responses have been reactive, fragmented, and under-funded. [Read more]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.