Filing taxes in the United States is harder and more expensive than in many countries; we spoke with Mina Hsiang, the third administrator of the Untied States Digital Service (USDS) and a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. Hsiang talked with us about why tax filing looks different for Americans and about the push to create a government free-file system in the United States.
For many Americans, the present economic circumstances feel uneasy, and the future feels worse.
In Singapore’s IT department, innovation comes not only from in-house technical expertise, but through pushing those skills out to the rest of the enterprise and supporting innovation nationally.
Alignment of artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses the normative problem of specifying how AI systems should act and the technical problem of ensuring AI systems comply with those specifications.
In Episode 453 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jason Furman, the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, about the state of the U.S.
We live in an era of unprecedented complexity—from climate change and global health crises to economic inequality. These “wicked problems” are deeply interconnected and resistant to simple solutions. Soroush Saghafian introduces a powerful framework for tackling complexity: analytics science.
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