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1 week ago | brookings.edu | Darrell M. West

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers many promising applications. Algorithms and machine learning can help and target treatment in effective ways. AI also plays a role in tracking climate change by monitoring weather patterns. Wildlife experts have coupled AI with satellite imagery to monitor how endangered species are faring and where threats are appearing. But there is a dark side to AI as well, given its potential for nefarious purposes.

1 week ago | brookings.edu | Andre Perry |David Wessel |Fred Dews

... just as we can start these bad policies at the local levels, we can create inclusive policies at the local level. So that’s part of what the book does. It says here are people actually doing something to change the outcomes of Black people and communities. Andre Perry Historically, Black Americans’ quest for power has been seen as an attempt to gain equal protection under the law, but power in America requires more than basic democratic freedoms.

2 weeks ago | brookings.edu | Darrell M. West |Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

... ultimately, we can outvote wealthy people because they are a relatively small part of our society and a small part our electorate. But it takes a recognition about what is happening, about the wealthification, about the benefits that wealthy individuals have gotten out of our political system. Darrell West Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has seen a sharp rise in both income inequality and the political influence of ultra-rich Americans.

2 weeks ago | brookings.edu | Nicol Turner Lee |Stephanie Pell |Scott Anderson

TechTank, a biweekly podcast from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, explores today’s most consequential technology issues. Moderators Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with experts and policymakers to share data, ideas, and policy solutions that address the challenges of our digital world. On March 15, the United States carried out strikes in Yemen reportedly killing dozens of people.

2 weeks ago | brookings.edu | Darrell M. West

In 1968, Professor Michael Lipsky wrote an influential article titled “Protest as a Political Resource,” in which he compared effective and ineffective movements. He argued that successful movements have clear strategic goals, use protest to broaden coalitions, seek to enlist more powerful individuals in their cause, and connect expressions of discontent to broader political and electoral mobilization.