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This policy brief is offered to the Saudi Think 20 (T20) process, as a recommendation to the Group of Twenty (G20) in 2020. The policy brief proposes the establishment of a G20 Coordinating Committee for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (G20 CCGAI) to effectively coordinate on a global leve...

The future rulers? Artificial intelligence (AI) has many advantages, but also significant and hard-to-calculate drawbacks for society. For totalitarian regimes, AI is the perfect tool for exercising power. In liberal democracies AI can fuel lack of trust in politicians and institutions and lead to g...

Hit by the outbreak of the COVID-19, the global economy has fallen into recession, factories have been shut down, and demand has shrunk. In the first quarter of 2020, China’s GDP growth rate declined by 6.8% in Comparable Prices.

Affected by the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, international oil prices have repeatedly set new lows. On March 18, the price of United States West Texas Intermediate crude oil (WTI) futures fell as low as $19 per barrel. After a period of arduous negotiations and price competition, Saudi Ar...

In terms of the effectiveness of COVID-19 prevention and control, of all the countries in the world only two have flattened the curve of new infections after large-scale outbreaks, one of which is China and the other South Korea.

Since late March, the most noticeable COVID-19 related news in addition to the significant outbreak in Europe and the U.S., has been the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games to 2021 and the subsequent sudden outbreak in Japan.