The Human Development Index (HDI) is a tool to measure human prosperity. Learn how it works, as well as the criticisms and ...

Read about the role of an index number in economics and how index numbers can be applied to all kinds of data, such as ...

The 2026 Report is the final installment in a trilogy on development through uncertainty, building on the 2023–24 HDR on political polarization and the 2025 HDR on AI-driven transformations. This ...

The 2026 Report is the final installment in a trilogy on development through uncertainty, building on the 2023–24 HDR on political polarization and the 2025 HDR on AI-driven transformations. This ...

The United States is fixated on frontier AI models, but the real race is deploying AI at scale—where China’s industrial strength and public trust give it a leg up.

India is dealing with a strange contradiction. We still talk about undernutrition, but at the same time, obesity is rising ...

Consciousness remains undefined, raising questions about whether awareness can be measured, shared, or even exists beyond the brain. Why Congress can't claw back war powers from Trump With the penny ...

At CES 2026, Nvidia launched Alpamayo, a new family of open source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets for training physical robots and vehicles that are designed to help autonomous vehicles ...

Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition. The results have been predictably dismal. In one particularly glaring — and unintentionally ...

Human-AI interactions are well understood in terms of trust and companionship. However, the role of attachment and experiences in such relationships is not entirely clear. In a new breakthrough, ...

I recently came across a discussion on social media about how people refer to pets and what this says about their ability to respect the animal’s needs. The discussion shifted to how people define ...