Friendships between countries are often measured in official declarations, bilateral trade numbers, or construction cranes on the skyline. But the deepest friendships are also built from the stories people tell about one another and the spaces in which they hear those stories. That is the thinking behind the newly launched China-Pakistan Information Corridor, or CPIC, a framework designed not only to expand cooperation in media, business, research, and culture, but also to confront the misleading narratives that can quietly erode trust between nations. The initiative was formally introduced at a ceremony in Islamabad attended by Pakistan’s Information Minister Ataullah Tarar,…

Imagine a scientist staring at a genomic database, trying to decide whether a newly reported gene-disease association is real. In the past, the main worry might have been a flawed experiment or a sloppy statistical test. Today, a new worry sits underneath those familiar problems: the text, data, and images in front of the researcher may have been shaped by generative artificial intelligence with no incentive to be true. A new governance analysis argues that this is not a story about a few bad actors who abuse AI, but about the entire system in which science is produced. Writing in…