New! 🤖 AI Apprenticeship for International Organisations in Geneva blended course
The course will be of interest to staff of international organisations based in Geneva. Selected applicants will be granted a full course fee waiver. Apply now!
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👉🏼 Application deadlines for certificates issued by Diplo: 25 May 2026
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◆ Need financial assistance? Scholarships are available!
Thanks to support from the government of Malta, partial scholarships are available for applicants from developing countries to attend upcoming Diplo online courses. These scholarships cover 30%–60% of course fees and can be applied to most 2026 online courses. Browse our course catalogue and contact us at admissions@diplomacy.edufor further information.
Upcoming events
◆ Emerging technologies and cybersecurity: Can governance adapt to speed, scale, and uncertainty? (4 May)
What happens when the technologies reshaping cyber risk outpace the norms and regulations designed to govern it?
On Monday, 4 May, our guest experts will lead a discussion on emerging technologies and cybersecurity, exploring how AI, quantum computing, and advanced automation are compressing decision-making timelines, redistributing risk, and challenging foundational assumptions about who is responsible for what.
The session continues this year’s series of masterclasses as part of the Geneva Dialogue’s 2026 work programme, which stress-tests agreed cyber norms and cybersecurity practices under real-world conditions , examining how they hold up amid geopolitical tension, technological acceleration, and systemic interdependence. Learn more and register!
Blogs and publications
◆ When AI writes the rules: How to avoid fake laws governing real life
AI systems are increasingly capable of producing legal language and rules that appear authoritative, including in cases where outputs have echoed or fabricated legal references, as highlighted in South Africa. The real question is how societies can distinguish useful AI assistance from ‘fake laws’, and why human institutions must remain the final gatekeepers of legitimacy and enforcement. Read the blog post!
◆ Open-weight AI takes root
Open-weight AI models allow emerging economies to own their tools rather than merely use them. From PlantVillage’s Nuru app, which supports more than 50,000 farmers, to Zambia’s DawaMom, which assists with high-risk pregnancies in local languages, the trend is clear: nations are moving beyond renting AI capabilities and building their own. Read the blog post!
◆ Untouchable is the antonym of untouchable
When ‘official’ identities become untouchable, does reason give way to cynicism? This deeply personal, contrarian look at the Jewish experience – from the ‘Wandering Jew’ to modern-day Gaza – asks if we have forgotten how to manage unhappy endings by leaving the thinking to monsters or fools. Read the blog post!
◆ Beyond connectivity: The apomechanic web and digital exclusion by design
For a decade, we accepted the quiet sight of a generation absorbed by glowing screens. Now, the mood has shifted. Europe has decided to step in and do what parents cannot: take the phone away.
Inspired by Australia’s recent bans, the EU is abandoning polite self-regulation. Instead, governments are building cryptographic age-gates and threatening tech giants with massive fines. The goal is to barricade children from an ‘algorithmic wilderness’. Read the blog post!
◆ Narendra Modi and the changing weight of the world
For decades, the West indulged India as a perpetually ‘emerging’ power. Following January’s sudden free-trade consensus, that fiction has collapsed. New Delhi is no longer asking for a seat at the table. From securing a hundred-billion-dollar Nordic climate investment to acquiring sophisticated Italian defence hardware, India is manoeuvring with the ruthless agility of a fully arrived superpower. Read the blog post!
◆ Mediation under strain: Why the Pakistan talks stumbled, and why diplomacy did not
The breakdown of mediation in Islamabad reflects the deepening constraints on modern diplomacy rather than a simple failure of intent. While the talks between the USA and Iran did not yield a formal agreement, they highlighted how high-profile settings and divergent strategic expectations narrow the window for successful negotiation. Read the blog post!
◆ Claude Mythos and the myth of AI control
The disconnect is glaring. We are trying to govern an automated, cyber-offensive reality with analogue laws. Our current regulatory frameworks are obsessed with yesterday’s problems, like data bias and transparency, while entirely missing the models engineered for exploitation. The blog post explains why the distance between AI reality and tech policy has never been more dangerous and what a real, multistakeholder intervention looks like. Read the blog post!
◆ Claude Mythos Preview sets new benchmark for AI capability and raises governance questions
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview is its most capable model to date, withheld from public release and made available only to a closed partner network amid concerns about its cybersecurity capabilities and governance implications. Read the DW analysis!
◆ AI industrial policy questions control over power, wealth, and governance
OpenAI introduces an AI industrial policy approach exploring how AI is redefining global structures in the intelligence age and shaping future governance. Read the DW analysis!
◆ The making of two Koreas
The Korean peninsula was divided in 1945 as a temporary arrangement, but the split soon hardened into something far deeper. This blog post reflects on ideology, estrangement, and the long shadow of division. Read the blog post!
◆ First- and second-order questions in policymaking
What happens when a state becomes so committed to a strategy that it no longer questions the assumptions behind it? Read the blog post!
◆ Digital Watch Weekly #260: Mission, money, and the future of OpenAI
In the latest issue of the DW Weekly newsletter:
Mission, money, and the future of OpenAI
The EU-USA critical minerals alliance for the technological future
Europe’s growing age-verification push for platform use
Australia reshaping news bargaining rules
The latest in AI governance and a look at the week ahead in Geneva
◆ Geneva Dialogue Podcast #10: How do we govern what everyone uses but nobody owns?
What does it mean to govern infrastructure that everyone depends on but no one controls? In this episode of Geneva Dialogue Talks, we sit down with Mika Lauhde from the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity to explore how open source software has moved from a licensing debate to a security policy challenge.
◆ AI Shorts #30: AI’s Own Tools Got Weaponised. And a Court Just Changed the Copyright Game
Hackers turned Anthropic’s Claude Code leak into a malware trap. Oracle quietly moved its AI infrastructure into US government agencies. And the Supreme Court just handed AI copyright plaintiffs a new argument to work with.
◆ DW Shorts #36: The AI dream has an electricity problem (and Tesla has a human problem)
Big Tech promised us an AI revolution. But the transformers are on back order, Tesla’s ‘self-driving’ cars still have a human in the loop, and the right to repair your own devices is quietly being legislated away. In the latest Digital Watch Shorts: three stories, one uncomfortable pattern.
