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Placebo and Null Arms
ESG Talk
1. Result in Brief - The study design specified Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) as a placebo arm. SSI was expected to have no product, no paper, no revenue and a few dozen...
Scoring Protocol
ESG Talk
1. What Is Scored, and What Is Not - This protocol fixes, before the prospectus exists, how our analogical risk inventory will be compared with Anthropic's Form S-1 once it is...
Mapping the Inventory to the SASB Standards
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1. Purpose and Result - The analogical risk inventory was built without opening the SASB Standards, so that the catalogue would not shape it. This paper performs the deferred...
Anthropic Before the Prospectus
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Working paper accompanying our Heavy Lifting essay on Anthropic's forthcoming prospectus. Nothing in this analysis was non-public as of the cutoff; every factual claim is...
The Anti – ESG Ecosystem
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Few contemporary concepts in American political economy have generated as much sustained conflict, confusion, and institutional friction as ESG. Over little more than a decade,...
Stories I Won’t Remember Writing
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Stories I Won't Remember Writing is one of those rare collections that leaves the reader wanting time to absorb each story before the next. And there is much to absorb in each of...
Rule 14a-8 in Practice
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Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 governs the circumstances under which a shareholder may include a proposal in a public company's proxy statement for a vote...
SEC Comment Letter on Semiannual Reporting
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I write in my individual academic capacity to comment on the Commission's proposal to permit eligible reporting companies to file a semiannual report on a new Form 10-S in lieu...
The Meridian Institute Grows Up
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The London campus opened in September 2031 with 47 students and a space in Clerkenwell that had been a design studio and before that a printworks and before that something nobody...
The Birth of the Meridian Institute
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January 14, 2029. Delaware has just registered the Meridian Institute as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and it exists now, legally, as a thing in the world. PBC. Not a...
The Carver School of Business
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Dean Sandra Okafor had appointed the working group in October. It had taken four months to schedule the first meeting because Professor Delacroix in Finance had a teaching...
The End of the Artisanal Paper
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Academic knowledge production is undergoing a structural transformation. Artificial intelligencehas not merely accelerated scholarship—it has changed its organizational form. The...
Production of Knowledge in Human-Machine Collaborations
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Whether human-machine collaborations can produce genuine knowledge, knowledge with the same epistemic validity as that produced without intelligent machines, is one of the...
Deck 2: Business School Academics
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AI and the Future of Academic Knowledge Production. What Organizational Form Makes the Difference. By Robert G. Eccles · Oxford Saïd Business School
Deck 1: Epistemic Circuit
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The Epistemic Circuit. Knowledge Production in Human-Machine Collaborations. The Hybrid Intelligent Team as Epistemological Form. By Robert G. Eccles · Oxford Saïd Business School