Consider commencement views from today and the past by Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, U.S. Navy Admiral William H. McRaven, Steve Jobs and President John Kennedy.

On the “Review of the Federal Reserve’s Supervision and Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank” and comments from Michael Barr, its Vice Chair for Supervision.

Comments about AI from the The Economist and Jaron Lanier, in The New Yorker to consider.

Comments from “Benefits, Limits, and Risks of GPT-4 as an AI Chatbot for Medicine” (New England Journal of Medicine; March 30, 2023)

Comments from the U.S. Congress, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sam Khater and the closure of Silicon Valley Bank.

Comments by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gentler on AI-driven predictive data analytics and digital/crypto assets.

With the popularity of HBO’s "The Last of Us” series, which presents a fictitious fungi driven global pandemic - consider the comments from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Center for Disease Control

Views for Ray Dalio (Founder - Bridgewater Associates), Mark Zandi (Chief Economist - Moody’s Analytics), Brookings Institute, and Neil Bradley (Executive Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce)

Comments from Microsoft CEO  Satya Nadella, Coursera CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, Stanford Professor Erik Brynjolfsson and singer/composer Nick Cave.

Views on the recently released artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT backed by Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Microsoft, Khosla Ventures and others.

Comments from Sam Bankman-Fried, U.S Justice Department, Harvard Business Review, Mark Cuban and Mike Novagratz

Comments from Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a firm that manages $163 billion.

Last week, bankruptcy details about FTX Group, a crypto platform once valued at over $30 billion, continued to unfold.