Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu acknowledged that for a while, we're going to see all sorts of conflicting evidence about AI: anecdotes that college grads are finding the job market worse and worse, but no noticeable effect of AI on productivity, for example. "There's a huge amount of uncertainty," he said.

Professor of the practice Gary Gensler joined "Bloomberg This Weekend" to discuss the SEC's move to end the quarterly reporting requirement. "Economic study after economic study has shown that quarterly reporting is a good thing. It creates a market environment where you can get a little higher price earnings ratio and a little less cost of capital because your investor base knows what's going on," Gensler said. (1:09:34)

Professor Andrew W. Lo said that AI struggles with tax optimization, doesn't understand regulatory nuance and — unlike a human financial adviser — isn't subject to legal requirements, such as acting in a client's best interest. He stressed that it's important to ask critical questions when using AI for retirement advice, such as prompting an AI to say where it might be wrong and to list its assumptions and uncertainties.

In this interview, Professor Catherine Wolfram explained how demand destruction driven by a surge in oil prices since the start of the conflict has impacted consumers. "The longer the supply shock goes on, the more it's not a shock. It's just the new normal," she said.

Astrological discrimination is especially baffling because it's based not on noticeable physical or cultural traits, but on wholly invisible, imaginary ones. A study by associate professor Jackson Lu and co-authors found that the recent phenomenon of the popularization of Western astrology in China, with its 12 sign-related personality types, led to the emergence of a new prejudice in Chinese society: one against people who have the Virgo sign.

"The challenge is if we have a severe crisis and fiscal policy doesn't respond quickly," said senior lecturer Eric Rosengren. "The flexibility that monetary policy provides is hamstrung" if the Fed agrees to limits on the size and composition of the balance sheet and needs permission to act.

In recent years, one of the most talked-about concepts in the business world has been "quiet quitting," an employee consciously refraining from doing more than what is required. Many employees feel a lack of open communication within the organization. This creates an "invisible silence" within the organization. While managers think everything is fine, a different reality prevails on the ground. Professor of the practice Zeynep Ton emphasized that this situation is directly related to performance: "Companies that don't listen to their employees' voices also lose operational efficiency."