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In this interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box," senior lecturer Paul Cheek said there's "significant room for improvement" for board members and executives to increase their own AI literacy, adding that boards need to better understand AI "as it relates to the ability to manage risk and strategic investments in the organizations that create value for all of us."

During a Climate Interactive webinar, the En-ROADS Climate Simulator was used to walk the audience through the implications of a warming planet. Professor John Sterman later noted that corporate adaptation and mitigation are not rivals for the same budget. As the scientific consensus now states plainly: we cannot adapt our way out of an unmitigated world. Adaptation without mitigation is not a strategy. It is a holding pattern with a rapidly approaching ceiling.

Professor David Thesmar said: "I am less in favor than the Pope of an 'AI peace.' AI peace means a concerted slowdown of technological progress, whereas we should, on the contrary, be accelerating it. Humanity faces many challenges, and the solution to some of them seems to be within reach of this technology. In short, it is far from certain that, for the well-being of humanity, even morally and spiritually, the organized stagnation of AI is a good thing."

The trend of pushing for smaller teams and more productive workers isn't new. "They've been saying that for 20 years," said Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman. "AI is a perfect excuse to justify big layoffs," he said. "It makes it seem as if it's not our decision, our fault — it's the technology."

Research affiliate Irving Wladawsky-Berger said: "What we need to do is buy useful, simple applications to implement initially, and then as we learn more, we can go bigger."

Professor Simon Johnson and co-author wrote: "A partial reopening of the Strait of Hormuz may be on the horizon. But is a lasting regional settlement any closer? The prevailing narrative is that the United States has lost control over the situation in the Persian Gulf. And it is certainly true that Iran has acquired a powerful card — the ability to threaten shipping in the Strait — that it did not previously hold."

Professor Sinan Aral joined "Squawk Box" to discuss the impending SpaceX IPO, Elon Musk's AI strategy post-SpaceX IPO, and more.

"The foundation for prosperity in our economy is monetary stability," said professor of the practice Athanasios Orphanides. "An environment of high and volatile inflation harms stability. Even when this means making decisions that may be unpopular in the short run or perhaps harm some special interest and the electoral considerations of some politicians, we need an independent institution to make sure that decisions will be the best for society over the long run."

According to Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability, prioritizing large-scale renewable energy sources can decrease the financial burden on households over time. "Energy generated by large-scale solar plants, for example, comes with lower transmission, distribution, and maintenance costs for utilities, and these efficiencies can be passed on to the consumer," he said.

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu wrote: "Pope Leo is right to call for moral clarity and a serious, society-wide debate. But the conversation must move beyond exhortation toward concrete choices. Pope Leo's intervention makes such a response a little more likely than it was before. But the rest of us must stand up for humanity, too."