A freelancer is someone who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Fields and professions where freelancing is predominant include: music, writing, acting, computer programming, web design, graphic design, translating and illustrating, and film and video production.

SB 3444, known as the Artificial Intelligence Safety Act, is a Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause critical harm. It defines "critical harms" as events such as the death or serious injury of 100 or more people, at least $1 billion in property damage, or a bad actor using AI to develop a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon. Coverage under the bill is tied to a model's training expense: any system built on more than $100 million in compute qualifies as a frontier model, a bar that would rope in the country's biggest AI developers, among them OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, and Meta.

A sovereign wealth fund is a state-owned investment fund that invests government reserves in global assets like stocks, bonds, real estate, and private equity.

Pan-Africanism is a global movement and ideology aimed at strengthening bonds of solidarity, unity, and self-determination among indigenous Africans and the African diaspora. Emerging in the early 20th century to fight colonialism and racism, it posits that people of African descent share a common history and destiny.

Nationality-based approaches prioritise political identity and action through individual nation-states, rather than broader transnational solidarity. They emphasise national sovereignty, distinct histories, and country-specific interests as the main basis for political progress.