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Two hundred years ago, Haiti was founded on the idea that cultivating young minds was a revolutionary act. Today, as the world’s first Black republic faces escalating crises, Anseye Pou Ayiti is shaping a new generation of leaders by centering Haitian language and culture in the classroom.

7 min readSeptember 22, 2023

Today's AI progress is tracked through well-understood metrics: Capital raised by AI start-ups or users for a particular AI product. These data points provide...

4 min readAugust 3, 2023

Welcome to Emerson Collective’s Immigration Update, a monthly newsletter that tries to make sense of important immigration-related developments by situating them in broader policy, political, and human contexts.

7 min readAugust 1, 2023

Though the coverage of AI is dominated by private sector firms like OpenAI and Google, the truth is that the field of AI has historically been driven by research universities. From the 1950s onwards, the big breakthroughs in this field were done by professors and taking place in research labs—not in technological office parks.

5 min readJuly 19, 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the world's imagination—and raised significant questions about how these technologies will affect our world. As critical as what we do with AI is how we think about AI, particularly as it relates to legislation and regulation.

4 min readJuly 5, 2023