Learning Salon Series: Our world’s cascading crises. What is driving them, are they going to get worse, and can they be stopped?
Thomas Homer-Dixon and Michael Lawrence
Learning Salon Series
The underlying mechanisms of cascading crises.
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Max – a thought experiment: Could AI run the economy better than markets?
Edward A. (Ted) Parson
This paper explores how recent advances in AI have re-opened questions around the feasibility and desirability of central economic planning. It presents a thought experiment about how an AI-directed economy might work, based on a powerful AI agent (whimsically named “Max”).
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Changemakers Speaker Series with Thomas Homer-Dixon
VIDEO | Royal Roads University President Steenkamp welcomes Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Cascade Institute, for an online lecture.
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Keeping fossil fuels in the ground: How a once fringe idea came to redefine our energy future
A blog post by Yonatan Strauch, Angela Carter, and Truzaar Dordi
