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."

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.

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."

"The foundation for prosperity in our economy is monetary stability," said professor of the practice Athanasios Orphanides. "An environment of high and volatile inflation harms stability. Even when this means making decisions that may be unpopular in the short run or perhaps harm some special interest and the electoral considerations of some politicians, we need an independent institution to make sure that decisions will be the best for society over the long run."

According to Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability, prioritizing large-scale renewable energy sources can decrease the financial burden on households over time. "Energy generated by large-scale solar plants, for example, comes with lower transmission, distribution, and maintenance costs for utilities, and these efficiencies can be passed on to the consumer," he said.

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu wrote: "Pope Leo is right to call for moral clarity and a serious, society-wide debate. But the conversation must move beyond exhortation toward concrete choices. Pope Leo's intervention makes such a response a little more likely than it was before. But the rest of us must stand up for humanity, too."

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."

A study by professor Sandy Pentland, associate professor Abdullah Almaatouq, and co-authors analyzed various friendship networks and found that only about half were truly reciprocal. In many relationships, one person considers the friendship close while the other experiences it much more superficially.

Research scientist Christian Catalini wrote: "The critical constraint of agentic commerce is not whether the agent can act, but whether someone is willing to take responsibility for the actions committed by that agent."

Professor Emeritus Bengt Holmstrom said: "It is an unsustainable strategy for a comprehensive electronics company like Samsung Electronics to follow the performance bonus structure of a semiconductor-specialized company like SK Hynix."