His Excellency Ambassador Prof. Muhammadou M. O. Kah, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar at the AI Ethics Lab at Rutgers University, spoke at Tufts University’s Center for International Law and Governance and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. He joined experts to discuss governance challenges in an increasingly interconnected world, including those related to climate change and artificial intelligence. These issues cut across trade, development, security, human rights, and migration, yet existing international governance remains siloed and ill-suited to the emerging “polycene.” The word polycene, coined by Craig Mundie and popularized by Thomas L. Friedman, describes a move from binary (two-sided) systems to a complex network of many interconnected systems.
