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Pension funds at a crossroads: Incremental greening or bold climate leadership?

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Scott Janzwood

February 23, 2021 • This paper investigates the forces constraining pension funds from taking a bolder leadership role in the net-zero carbon energy transition. It presents strategies for organizations, activists, and researchers to accelerate pension fund leadership on a timescale that is commensurate with the urgency of the climate crisis.

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Max – a thought experiment: Could AI run the economy better than markets?

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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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