AI is eliminating friction across software delivery. Code generation, pipeline automation and agentic operations can now ...

Instructors across disciplines at Carnegie Mellon University have redesigned courses incorporating AI as a teaching tool to help students exercise more curiosity, creativity and critical thinking.

Terms such as “complexity,” “complex systems,” and “complex adaptive systems” have moved rapidly from specialist research into the vocabularies of policy, sustainability practice, business, and health ...

Next time you’re about to ask an AI chatbot to help you solve a hard problem, you might want to slow your roll. People who waited to consult an AI chatbot until they had partially worked through a ...

Today’s business problems are more complex than ever, and innovating solutions to those problems without considering systemic impact can backfire. To avoid unintended harm to people and the ...

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If there’s one concept educators can no longer afford to ignore, it’s systems thinking. It’s not new. But it’s newly urgent. With the rapid rise of AI, the growing complexity of classrooms, and the ...

A systems thinking approach is essential for public health policy development, offering a framework to navigate the dynamic complexities inherent in public health issues. This methodology enables ...

WASHINGTON – Over 80 organizations and prominent experts have come together to oppose a new surveillance feature of digital identity systems known as “Phone Home,” which allows the government to track ...

More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) continue to grapple with economic stagnation, aging infrastructure, and environmental ...

I’ve been thinking about this dynamic a lot after reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2025). The book focuses on public policy, but the parallels ...