Boeing has struggled to manage its supply of 737 Max jets months after the fallout from two fatal crashes involving the planes in late 2018 and early 2019. And now, Boeing has had to crowd its employee parking lots with some undelivered planes, the local S…
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AI, Drones, Empathy, Alienation, and the Gig Economy
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The Verge has an important post on content moderation in the corporate hellhole that is Facebook which has implications both for the future of work (or, as we call it, “labor”) and for services that we, as consumers (reproduc…
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Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?
By Servaas Storm, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Delft University of Technology. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Dutch economist Servaas Storm, co- author of a widely-read 2018 study on climate change, Why Green Growth …
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Microsoft Reconsidering AI Ethics Review Plan
Microsoft, which has taken the ethical implications of AI so seriously that president Brad Smith met with Pope Francis in February to discuss how to best create responsible systems, is reconsidering a proposal to add AI ethics to its formal list of product au…
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Eyes On Tesla’s Unit Cost And Ads ROI
Teslas (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock dropped from its peak $387 to the recent $176 low in May 2019. First, we believe the market showed worry about the effectiveness of recent strategies such as entering the general market with the low-priced Model 3. Second, we belie…
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