Finance

Should you use AI for financial advice? Professor Andrew W. Lo says not yet. Large language models like Copilot or ChatGPT aren’t suited to being used as financial advisers because they are the digital equivalent of sociopaths — smooth, persuasive and devoid of empathy.

In this episode of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," principal research scientist Andrew McAfee said: "Nature is more complicated than we can understand. Now we have a set of technologies — call it generative AI — where if we just feed it a whole bunch of stuff, it can do a remarkable job of figuring out the rules, structure, and what's going on underneath the hood."

"If oil production goes up, climate change will get worse sooner, and everybody loses, including the people of Venezuela," professor John Sterman said. "The climate damages suffered by Venezuela, along with other countries, will almost certainly outweigh any short-term economic benefit of selling a bit more oil."

Congress has directed the US Department of Energy to study the carbon intensity of certain industrial products exported to the European Union. If the Trump administration succeeds in scuttling greenhouse gas reporting requirements, the new study "would potentially be a good way to replace the types of data that were collected under that program," said professor Catherine Wolfram.