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Nvidia, Meta and SLB rank among top companies in adopting AI, new study says
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."
The 1.5 degree threshold has been crossed — is your business prepared?
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.
Thesmar and Landier: 'The AI peace proposed by the Pope aims to slow down progress, whereas we need to accelerate it.'
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."
CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. 'They've been saying that for 20 years.'
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."
Enterprise AI implementation is growing — as are the challenges
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."
What price Hormuz?
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."