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2026-04-06
On my way to Tsinghua (清华大学), Beijing
2026-04-05
Next week, I will be at Tsinghua University in Beijing. On Tuesday, in the early afternoon, I will give three lectures for undergraduate students on the theme: ‘Three lectures on AI and its implications for actuarial (and/or financial) professions.’ These lectures explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and insurance. They begin from the observation that insurance has long relied on prediction, classification, and decision-making under uncertainty, well before the recent rise of AI. AI therefore does not introduce these issues from scratch, but changes … <a …
How do political organizations and politically-minded rich people translate money into media influence? Differently than they used to.
2026-04-05
Back in the day it was simple. You want to influence public opinion, you start a newspaper. You want to influence elite opinion, you start a magazine. From the other direction, if you have a newspaper or a magazine, you …
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