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American Service Fellow Gannon Hendrick MC/MPA 2027 is bringing his rural perspective and commitment to public service into conversations with classmates from around the world ken.sc/4yMxjL3

Regulating AI will take all of us, says Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain. During his recent conversation with HKS's Mathias Risse, he spoke to the urgency of collective efforts from the international community to address the rapid development of AI. “There’s still a great deal of work to do. We have to put forward solutions, even if imperfect. We have to test, we have to measure, and we have to improve them—and we have to do it together,” said Sánchez. ken.sc/3VVmmbK

"No country can solve climate change alone.": The Paris Climate Agreement was one of the biggest achievements of Ban Ki-moon's tenure as Secretary General of the United Nations. Ki-moon argues that solving the climate crisis requires unity between all nations, and calls upon the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement.

"We talk about you as a national security threat now.": This message given to @SenatorAndyKim by European leaders was not just a result of the Trump administration's actions, but a series of dominoes that have fallen in American society that breed domestic conflict and strain foreign relationships.

.@SenatorAndyKim describes how the Chinese government, despite outwardly claiming cooperation with the United States, remains engaged in destabilizing actions across the world targeting America and its allies.

Belfer Center Senior Fellow @wendyrsherman shares her experiences as the former deputy secretary of state, weighing in on the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the United States, and the impact of President Trump's aggressive comments at the recent United Nations General Assembly.

"I'm pretty pragmatic in how we do it. But at the end of the day, it's going to be some combination of public and private.": Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA) discusses his vision for how universal healthcare could be realistically implemented in America

American Service Fellow Joe Newhouse MC/MPA 2027 is using his time at HKS to reflect on public leadership, engage across political differences, and find common ground. ken.sc/4hN29Mh

American Service Fellow Colleen Corbett MC/MPA 2027 is a NASA operations expert committed to ensuring taxpayers get their money’s worth. ken.sc/3TREAtM

Meet American Service Fellow Chuepheng “Ping” Lo MC/MPA 2027. From fleeing Laos as a child to serving around the world with the U.S. Army, his journey has been shaped by resilience, responsibility, and a deep appreciation for his adopted country. ken.sc/3TOJ4S6

Over his eight-week internship with the Asian Development Bank Institute, Cheng Wang MPA/ID 2027 began to see development differently—and to think more deeply on what “practical” policy work really means. ken.sc/3TkEcnE

Have you heard of the Anthropic Economic Index? Peter McCrory, Anthropic's chief economist, explained that the company produces this measurement of how people and businesses are using Claude, Anthropic’s AI tool, around the world. The index is public, in hopes that researches will use the data to make sense of the evolving impact of AI on the economy. ken.sc/47lydCg

“If you’re not involved in politics, politics will be involved with you.” Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Doc Rivers talks about the importance of being civically engaged; plays “elect, impeach, debate”; and tells us which public policy impacted him most. #NBA

"The First Amendment is the backbone of our Constitution." - Don Lemon on the Trump administration's repeated attacks on freedom of the press, including his arrest in January as well as the press bans in the White House and the Pentagon

Don Lemon describes the motives behind his firing from CNN, citing the network's intentional shift to the right and their appeasement of President Trump and the MAGA movement

AI overhang, which is when AI capabilities have far surpassed the ways in which people typically use the tools, has the potential to be a "recipe for disruption," according to HKS professor and computer scientist @StephenLCasper. However, there are options to avoid the overhang by regulating the supply chain.

American Service Fellow Alex Castillo Smith MC/MPA 2027 is using her time at HKS to examine what she has learned from helping run New Mexico's health care programs—and how she can be better equipped to help government serve communities with dignity, efficiency, and equity. ken.sc/3VVLoY2

Should we be giving voters more credit for their ability to evaluate candidates? While conventional wisdom has held that when a strong candidate runs at the "top of the ticket," "down ballot" candidates in the same party benefit. However, HKS's @BenSchneer has found that voters actually make decisions based on the quality of each candidate and their ideology, not based on who is at the top of the ticket. ken.sc/4AY9AJC

American Service Fellow Adam Caruso MC/MPA 2027 is studying how leaders can organize people and institutions to address problems that no single agency or sector can solve alone. ken.sc/4hW69eM