Hippolyte Fofack for PS On Point: Decolonizing Global Finance

What Lies Beyond the AI Tipping Point? Andrea Komlosy, Sami Mahroum, Stan Matwin, and Gabriela Ramos respond in a new Big Question. [View this message in a web browser]( [PS On Point]( FEBRUARY 10, 2023 Born in the mid-1940s to serve the interests of the world's leading industrial powers at the time, the Bretton Woods system has long perpetuated and deepened inequalities between advanced economies and the developing world. An overhaul is long overdue, writes Hippolyte Fofack, Chief Economist and Director of Research at the African Export-Import Bank. [Read more](. What Lies Beyond the AI Tipping Point? In a new Big Question, Andrea Komlosy, Sami Mahroum, Stan Matwin, and Gabriela Ramos offer clear-eyed assessments of the artificial-intelligence revolution heralded by the popular and investor response to ChatGPT. [Read more](. [PS Longer Reads: Decolonizing Global Finance]( [Decolonizing Global Finance]( By Hippolyte Fofack With the world shifting irreversibly toward greater multipolarity, revamping the governance of major international financial institutions is critical to renewing their credibility and legitimacy. Decades of small tweaks and marginal adjustments have been not only insufficient but often counterproductive. [Read more]( [PS Winter Sale: Save 25% on a new Digital or Digital Plus subscription.]( [PS Big Question: What Lies Beyond the AI Tipping Point?]( [PS Commentators Respond: What Lies Beyond the AI Tipping Point?]( with Andrea Komlosy, Sami Mahroum, Stan Matwin, and Gabriela Ramos The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT less than three months ago has fueled feverish debate about the risks, challenges, and opportunities raised by artificial intelligence. With companies pouring billions of dollars into the technology, we asked PS commentators whether and how the world as we know it is about to be transformed. [Read more]( [Sergei Guriev on Putin, populism, Chinese repression, and more]( Sergei Guriev assesses the strength of the Russian president’s grip on power, predicts that Xi Jinping’s embrace of personalist rule will lead to policy missteps, urges the West to pursue a strategy of “adversarial engagement” toward modern dictators, and more. Guriev is Provost and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po and co-author (with Daniel Treisman) of [Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century](. [Read more]( [PS Longer Reads: Germany's Reckoning]( [Germany's Reckoning]( By Helmut K. Anheier When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaimed a fundamental reorientation of German policy in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there had been no public debate on the matter. But in the year since, German society has been grappling constructively with the questions that will define its future. [Read more]( [PS. Sign up for our PS on Sunday newsletter to get all the analysis you need before the start of the new workweek.]( [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](.