- Governing with Artificial Intelligence: The State of Play and Way Forward in Core Government Functions
Report · 17 September 2025
AI offers tremendous potential in its use by governments. It helps governments automate and tailor public services, improve decision-making, detect fraud, and enrich civil servants’ work and…
- Why FINRA’s 2026 report puts AI governance under scrutiny
Report · 31 December 2025
- How banks and FinTechs are scaling AI in financial crime
Report · 24 December 2025
AI has moved decisively from experimentation to execution within financial crime and compliance teams.
- Generative AI in compliance: oversight, governance and risk
Report, Blog · 12 January 2026
Generative AI is no longer an emerging concept for compliance teams. Over the past year, it has become a practical tool embedded into everyday workflows, driven by rising regulatory complexity…
- Agentic AI set to transform financial crime operations
Report, News · 12 January 2026
Agentic AI is quickly becoming a core focus for financial crime and compliance teams, with new research showing growing confidence in its ability to deliver meaningful change.
- Artificial intelligence and growth in advanced and emerging economies: short-run impact
Report · 19 December 2025
This paper investigates whether the positive effects of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) on growth rate of value added differ across countries in the short run. Using an empirical strategy…
- Joachim Nagel: AI and the future of central banking
Speech · 11 December 2025
Welcome address by Dr Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the conference "Artificial Intelligence and the future of central banking", jointly hosted by SUERF ( The European Money…
- Introducing Disruptive Technology to Criminal Sanctions: Punishment by Computer Monitoring to Enhance Sentencing Fairness and Efficiency
Report · 8 April 2019
The United States criminal justice system is the most punitive on earth. The total correctional population is nearly seven million, equating to a staggering one in thirty-eight adults. Most of the…
- Leading Legal Disruption Editorial: A Vision for the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Report · 5 August 2025
Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law is designed to challenge lawyers with the practical implications that emerging technologies will have on…
- Legal Innovation: Conversations about Technology, the Legal Profession and Societal Change
Report · 24 July 2025
This book invites to join conversations about legal innovation with a focus on technology, the legal profession and societal change. Particular consideration is given to the impact of artificial…
- How the U.S. can compete with China on digital justice technology
Report · 24 October 2021
This report warns that China’s rapid digitization of its justice system—the so-called "Smart Courts" initiative—is becoming a central component of its effort to export digital authoritarianism. While…
- How to improve technical expertise for judges in AI-related litigation
Report · 7 November 2019
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into modern life, it is inevitably moving from the laboratory to the courtroom. This report examines the complex legal and ethical challenges…
- How digital technology can reduce prison incarceration rates
Report · 30 March 2015
The United States faces a critical challenge with its high incarceration rates, leading to a bipartisan push for sentencing reform that seeks alternatives to physical imprisonment for nonviolent…
- Previewing the TechStream newsletter: The geopolitics of TikTok
Report, News
Every week, the TechStream newsletter brings you the latest from Brookings’ TechStream and news and analysis about the world of technology. To sign up and get this newsletter delivered to you inbox…
- Questions for technology CEOs testifying before Congress
Report · 13 July 2020
On July 29, America will be treated to unprecedented congressional testimony from four of the most powerful technology leaders in the world: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Sundar Pichai of…
- Center for Technology Innovation partners with Lawfare to launch new TechTank podcast
Podcast, News · 5 August 2022
TechTank, a biweekly podcast from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, explores today’s most consequential technology issues. Moderators Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with…
- How digital technology is reshaping espionage and intelligence-gathering | The TechTank Podcast
Podcast · 24 January 2022
TechTank, a biweekly podcast from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, explores today’s most consequential technology issues. Moderators Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with…
- How does tech policy fall short in protecting people with disabilities? | The TechTank Podcast
Podcast · 7 August 2022
TechTank, a biweekly podcast from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, explores today’s most consequential technology issues. Moderators Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with…
- How the tech sector can protect personal data post-Roe
Report · 26 October 2022
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last summer, journalists and privacy advocates alike quickly sounded the alarm about the potential for prosecutors to use…
- How Black tech founders are advancing innovation | The TechTank Podcast
Podcast · 26 February 2025
Black inventors, scientists, founders, and other tech innovators have made tremendous advancements to the broad ecosystem of technological innovation. To name a few, Shirley Ann Jackson is a renowned…
- Population dividend, technological leapfrogging, and high growth rates signal opportunities for African economies
Report, Podcast · 8 July 2025
Host Landry Signé speaks with Acha Leke, chairman of McKinsey & Company’s Africa Region and senior partner in their Johannesburg office, about Africa’s many advantages in human and natural resources.…