The Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security is rooted in the principles articulated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that emphasized the need to for peace and security, especially in the Indo-Pacific region, against rising authoritarian and revanchist powers, and for...

I was drafting a little Four Pillars article on some statements and proclamations made over the week, but a notable event just had to happen in the Middle East again. Not to make a mockery of a death, but Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is confirmed dead following a...

Before the conference  to honor Dr. Alondra Nelson with 2024 World Leader in AIWS on April 30, BGF Chief Editor Minh Nguyen interviewed Dr. Nelson. Watch the full conversation on YouTube. “Science and technology policy affects everything.” When I threw an icebreaker...

This is an excerpt of the article originally published in ScienceAlert. You probably know to take everything an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot says with a grain of salt, since they are often just scraping data indiscriminately, without the nous to determine its...

There have not been any groundbreaking or world-shifting events that happened within the Four Pillars space this week, or in the past couple weeks rather, there have been some interesting developments to dig into. News broke toward the end of the week, that US...