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Nur Laiq

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Dr. Nur Laiq is an Emerging Technology & Geopolitics Fellow and an Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is writing a political history of tech and AI that treats policy not as background noise but as the real engine of the tech economy.

Laiq is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation and the International Peace Institute, where she advises on AI governance policymaking. She has worked in the public policy arena for over 15 years, with the UN, governments and think tanks. She has a DPhil from Oxford on Silicon Valley’s politics.

Events

Apr 22, 2026 @ 12:20 PM

Move Fast, Break Things: The Policy Origins of Today’s AI Race

Today’s U.S.-China AI race is often framed as the defining technological competition of our era. It is marked by a surge of subsidies, tax credits, and public-private investment,…

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