Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. When central banks issue digital money (The Economist)
2. Trump decision reveals limits of Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ (The Financial Times)
3. Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion (The Atlantic)
4. Amazon’s cashierless checkout technology is coming to its new supermarkets (CNBC)
5. The White House warns that the U.S. lags behind China on developing clean technologies (The New York Times)
6. ‘Self-driving’ cars to be allowed on UK roads this year (BBC News)
7. New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale (The Economist)
8. UN forum examines how to make science and technology work better for all (UN News)
9. TikTok joins the Technology Coalition (TikTok)

Some light reading- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau