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Global climate negotiations are stalled because countries won’t act unless others move first. When negotiations rely on sequential pledges, single-issue targets, and voluntary compliance, even agreements that would leave everyone better off remain out of reach. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Recent work using a deliberative negotiation simulation suggests that the obstacle may lie less in political will than in decision architecture . When negotiations are re-designed to

How Simpol and Smartsettle are reimagining global cooperation on climate change. For three decades, the world’s nations have gathered annually at the United Nations Climate Conferences (COP) to confront the growing threat of climate change. While science has reached near-unanimous consensus on the causes and consequences of global warming, global action has lagged. The challenge today is not a lack of knowledge — it’s the difficulty of achieving fair, simultaneous action  acr

In an era defined by complex, multi-stakeholder conflicts — from corporate strategy to international diplomacy — traditional decision-making approaches often fall short. What if there were a systematic way to unlock collaboration, even when incentives seem to push parties toward competition? By combining insights from game theory  with modern AI-enabled negotiation systems , we can shift from win-lose assumptions to solutions that make collaboration the most rational choice.

Ernest Thiessen and John L German Introduction The AI Futures Project has made an important contribution to the global conversation about advanced artificial intelligence by doing something that most technical papers do not: it tells plausible stories about how things might unfold. In particular, What Happens When Superhuman AIs Compete for Control?  confronts readers with futures in which capability races, misalignment, fragmented governance, and strategic mistrust interact

Rethinking U.S. Elections: How Optimized Consensus Could Transform Democracy