Join Henry Farrell, SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, moderated by Pepper Culpepper, Blavatnik Chair in Government and Public Policy, as he delivers the Astor Lecture on AI as social technology, as part of his Astor Visiting Lectureship. There is vigorous debate over whether AI Large Language Models are a kind of "normal technology" like electricity that will gradually change the economy, or alternatively whether we are on the cusp of an epochal change, in which agentic machine intelligence might even replace the human species.

The Research Day will showcase students’ research, facilitate exchange of ideas across disciplines and regions within Asia, and foster a supportive peer network 8.45 am: Arrival and Registration Session 1: 9.00 – 11.00 am Siyu Ma Learning at Home in Contemporary China: Caregiver and Sibling Contributions in Two-Child Families Sen Huang The Fatigue of Tongzhi: Queer Regionalism in East Asia Alfred W. T.

Samer Sinijlawi is a reformist member of Palestine’s Fatah party. He is a Palestinian Jerusalemite and founding chairman of the Jerusalem Development Fund. He holds degrees from Birzeit University and the Hebrew University. He spent five teenaged years in Israeli gaol. Sinijlawi has led youth mobilisation and worked on relations with Israel and the international community. He advocates reform, democracy and Palestinian–Israeli coexistence. Often described as a ‘leader of the opposition’, Sinijlawi directly addresses both Palestinian and Israeli audiences.

Abstract: The search for effective interventions to counter misinformation has yielded disappointing results despite considerable effort among researchers. This disappointment stems from two interconnected problems: unrealistic expectations about behavioral science’s capacity to change beliefs, and an overly narrow focus on finding single “magic bullet” solutions.

Over the course of three decades, between 1948 and 1975, more than 60,000 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were imprisoned in Egypt. What did these prison experiences mean for the social, intellectual, and organizational development of the Brotherhood? What role has the prison, more broadly, played in the history of Islamism? And how have interactions between the state and political prisoners of diverse ideological commitments shaped the debate over the role of religion and politics in twentieth-century Egypt?

Katrina Manson’s recently published book explores the dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare In 2017, a small crew gathered in a windowless Pentagon room to put AI at the heart of how America makes war. Led by Drew Cukor, an unyielding Marine Corps colonel driven by the deaths of US troops and the prospect of war with an AI-equipped China, the Project Maven team raced to send AI into combat, igniting controversy and forever changing the US military.