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The emerging technologies and innovations reshaping policy and power, from AI to critical minerals to quantum computing.

Past Events

The Global AI Race

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Lindsay Gorman, Alvin Wang Graylin, and V.S. Subrahmanian examine the race between the United States and China over artificial intelligence—who's ahead, how their visions for the technology diverge, and what the outcome means for the world.

Jul 28
Speakers on the Council's event stage
Ana Miyares Photography

The Quantum Governance Gap: Security, Trust, and Who Sets the Rules

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Chicago Council experts join leaders from government, industry, and academia at the Global Quantum Forum to discuss how policy choices will shape the future of quantum technologies.

Jul 22
seven cubit quantum device
Seth Wenig / AP
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Commentary

What Winning the AI Race Really Means

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Everyone is asking whether the US is ahead in the AI race. Anne Neuberger argues that's the wrong question and explains what matters instead.

A factory working lining up a data chip under a machine.
Jeffrey McWhorter / AP
Technology

Don't Let China Stack the Deck

In the News
Foreign Policy
Suzanne Nossel

"By demonstrating how AI can render democracies more efficient and better able to deliver, the United States can offer a counterweight to China’s authoritarian efficacy," Council Lester Crown Senior Nonresident Fellow Suzanne Nossel writes.

Artificial Intelligence robots demonstrate working on power grid control units in China
Andy Wong / AP
Technology
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Research

Critical Minerals, Rare Earth Elements, and the Challenges Ahead for the United States

RESEARCH
Report by Karl Friedhoff

Washington is already behind in the race to secure critical minerals and rare earth elements. This report presents a path forward.

Ore is hauled from the Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine in Utah
Rick Bowmer / AP
US Foreign Policy

Americans Favor Greater AI and Quantum Regulation

RESEARCH
Public Opinion Survey by Coauthors

While still forming their views on these technologies, more say they are concerned about the potential risks than excited about the opportunities.

An IBM Heron quantum processor chip is in a circuit board at IBM headquarters
Ted Shaffrey / AP
Public Opinion
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Experts

Kathleen Hicks 

Council Distinguished Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
headshot of Kathleen Hicks
Expertise
Geopolitics
US Foreign Policy
Technology
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