Upcoming Events

The Global AI Race

Hybrid EVENT

Lindsay Gorman and Alvin Wang Graylin 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.

ChatGPT App in the iPhone App Store.
Matt Rourke / AP
Jul
28

Past Events

The Digital Battlefield: How Technology Is Transforming War

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Kathleen Hicks and Patrick Tucker discuss the changing nature of warfare and what it means for the future of global defense and security.

Speakers on the Council's stage.
Ana Miyares Photography

Competing to Win: America's Economic Power in the Age of AI

PAST EVENT

Suzanne Nossel leads a webinar in partnership with the Leadership Now Project on how the US can strengthen its competitiveness in the age of AI.

Pedestrians are reflected on an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo.
Eugene Hoshiko / AP

Commentary

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
Tech and Science

G7 Summit 2026: China, Trade, and Economic Security

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

As the G7 prepares to meet, economic security is becoming harder to ignore. Mathieu Duchâtel explains what's behind the push to make supply chains more resilient and where the biggest challenges remain.

Macron
Tom Nicholson / POOL REUTERS
Global Economy

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

Experts

Kathleen Hicks 

Distinguished Nonresident Fellow, Defense and Security, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
headshot of Kathleen Hicks