From Our Weekly Note and More
"Time to Take Action" on Climate Change
Comments from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Bill Gates, Pope Francis, EPA Administrator Michael Regan, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Suzanne P. Clark
On AI's Evolution: Comments from Business Leaders and Policy-Makers
Comments from OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and members of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
On the Conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried
Comments from Mark Cohen, Sam Bankman-Fried's lead defense attorney, Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney’s Office - Southern District Court, and Danielle Sassoon, U.S. Assistant Attorney
On Gene Editing, Machine Learning and AI
Comments from the Rand Corp.’s ” Machine Learning and gene editing at the helm of a societal evolution."
Guidance for the Class of 2023: From Today and the Past
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 Silicon Valley Bank's Failure
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.
On Being Pragmatic About Artificial Intelligence
Comments about AI from the The Economist and Jaron Lanier, in The New Yorker to consider.
On the "Benefits, Limits, and Risks of GPT-4 as an AI Chatbot for Medicine"
Comments from “Benefits, Limits, and Risks of GPT-4 as an AI Chatbot for Medicine” (New England Journal of Medicine; March 30, 2023)
On Fentanyl, Xylazine and Illegal Drug Trends
Comments from the U.S. Congress, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
On U.S. Inflation, Mortgage Rates and a Bank's Collapse
Comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sam Khater and the closure of Silicon Valley Bank.
On AI, Digital Assets, and the SEC
Comments by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gentler on AI-driven predictive data analytics and digital/crypto assets.
On "The Last of Us", Fungi and Disease
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
On the U.S. Debt Ceiling: Selected Views
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)
On AI Disruption, ChatGPT and more
Comments from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Coursera CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, Stanford Professor Erik Brynjolfsson and singer/composer Nick Cave.