Belfer at the Forum: 2024
Highlights from Belfer Center Experts at the Institute of Politics' JFK Jr. Forum, where global leaders and changemakers platform timely, insightful conversation.
Technology and AI
AI is a dominating emerging technology and policy discussions about innovation, regulation and application evolve on a daily basis. Belfer Center experts at the IOP analyze the latest and provide critical insight into it affects - and will shape in future - international policy and relations.
AI and the Geopolitics of Emerging Technologies
Few tasks are more daunting — and urgent — than building a governing framework for artificial intelligence that can harness opportunities, manage risks, and respond to concerns over equity and much more.
Join the co-chairs of the UN AI Advisory Body as they discuss their recent report, "Governing AI for Humanity," and share their views of the challenges and prospects in this consequential domain.
Featuring: Belfer Center Senior Fellow, Carme Artigas, and James Manyika, Co-Chairs, United Nations AI Advisory Board). Moderated by Belfer Center Director Meghan O'Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs.
Genesis: AI, Hope, and the Human Spirit
A conversation with former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, about his new book, "Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit," co-authored with Henry Kissinger and Craig Mundie - moderated by Graham Allison.
From the unprecedented opportunities of AI to revolutionize medicine, production, and even the human spirit, to the risk of dark applications that could crush millions of human beings and subordinate mankind, Schmidt and his colleagues stretch our minds.
International Relations and Foreign Policy
2024 has been characterized as a year of global warfare and rapidly changing political power shifts, as conflict in the Middle East and war between Russia and Ukraine coincide with more than 100 elections taking place throughout the year, changing domestic and foreign policy trajectory for years to come.
The Presidential Inbox: A Discussion on the Global Priorities Awaiting the Next President of the United States
Prior to the U.S. Election in 2024, Wendy Sherman, former Deputy Secretary of State, and Joint Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for Public Leadership joined Belfer Center Director Meghan O'Sullivan to discuss.
World Order and Disorder: The United States, Eurasia, and the Indo-Pacific
The Belfer Center and IOP sponsor a conversation with David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent for the New York Times, and author of the forthcoming book "New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West;" Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; and Karen Donfried, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Moderated by Meghan O'Sullivan, Belfer Center Director.
A Conversation with Ambassador Kevin Rudd
Ambassador Kevin Rudd, Australia's Ambassador to the United States and Former Prime Minister of Australia, discusses his new book: "On Xi Jinping." Moderated by Graham Alison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University, and Mark Wu, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law.
The China Challenge and America's Future
A special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, is moderated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison, and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Meghan O'Sullivan.
Europe’s Position in a Multipower and Polarized World
Karen Donfried , former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, moderates a conversation featuring different perspectives on Europe: Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary and Arancha González, Former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.
The 2024 Election, Trump, and the Future of American Democracy
Prior to the 2024 U.S. Election, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy discusses the 2024 campaign, former President Trump’s role in it, and the future of American democracy. Drawing on 17 years of service in Congress that concluded with his Speakership of the House, McCarthy shares some of his experiences and insights about the state of American democracy today. This conversation was moderated by Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government.
2024 Edwin L. Godkin Lecture with Dame Louise Richardson: Reflections on a Career Leading Universities and Countering Terrorism
Graham Allison moderates the 2024 Godkin Lecture: after two decades of successful leadership at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Oxford, Louise Richardson returned to the U.S. last summer to become the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.