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Disciplined Curiosity: Why Philanthropy Needs Systematic Inquiry in an Era of Answers
Posted in November 12, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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The Iceberg Revisited: Six Ways of Representing Complexity
Posted in November 10, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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The Promise and Peril of “AI for Democracy”
Posted in October 14, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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Beyond the Prompt: Reclaiming Human Inquiry and the Science of Questions in the Age of AI
Posted in October 14, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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From Data Stewardship to Model Stewardship: Extending Governance Frameworks for AI Era Health Data Use
Posted in October 13, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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No Widespread Displacement, but the AI Employment Gap for Young Workers Has Widened to 19%
Posted in August 13, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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Agency in the age of generative AI: a critical review of educational implications
Posted in August 13, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
Artificial Intelligence
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Small States, Big Signals: What adoption in practice reveals about trust, safety, and AI performance globally
Posted in August 11, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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How AI is breaking the British state
Posted in August 11, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Facism and the War on Democracy
Posted in August 10, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
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Towards Effective E-Participation of Citizens in the European Union: The Development of AskThePublic
Posted in October 6, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
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AI Simulations of Audience Attitudes and Policy Preferences: “Silicon Sampling” Guidance for Communications Practitioners
Posted in October 3, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
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Know Your City
Posted in October 1, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
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Notes on building collective intelligence into evals
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The Practice of Democracy Through Citizen Assemblies
Posted in September 28, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
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An AI-Powered Framework for Analyzing Collective Idea Evolution in Deliberative Assemblies
Posted in September 23, 2025 by Stefaan Verhulst
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Towards a minimal definition of policy innovation labs
Posted in March 25, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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The Growing Shadow of Autocracy
Posted in March 22, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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Jürgen Habermas’ lost world: the coffee-house and the public sphere
Posted in March 21, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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The Need to Rename Tech
Posted in March 21, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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The OECD Going Digital Measurement Roadmap 2026
Posted in March 21, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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Leveraging Digital Public Goods: Designing digital wallets to unlock opportunities for human security
Posted in March 18, 2026 by Stefaan Verhulst
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