We call for the establishment of a Natural Futures Market, trading in the environmental value of securities already exchanged in financial markets. We suggest 5 bases of general agreement for the operation of the market to provide clear signals to investors, and a trading rent for the benefit of a Natural Guardianship Trust.
We are confronted daily by increasingly sophisticated attempts powered by technology to breach our privacy and security. While AI regulations are expanding, we can look for and promote leaders who understand the serious issues.
Data brokering is estimated to generate more than $200 billion of annual revenue, none of which goes to the creators of the data. In an industry that is largely unregulated, brokers sell text and image data to marketers and law enforcement.
OpenAI’s release of the popular and powerful GPT-3 and GPT-4 technology has sparked global discussion about its benefits and risks. We propose four questions to help align the technology with OpenAI’s mission that it “benefits all of humanity.”
With no foreseeable way to raise $31 trillion in cash to repay the U.S. national debt, the future depends on sustained belief in the country’s potential. What can be done to address threats to belief and ensure creditworthiness, so buyers of new debts will continue to replace maturing debts?
Our capitalist system records no value for a customer’s time. How would transactions turn out if there was an accounting for time? Here’s an example of an airline ticket that would never have been sold, and 24 hours of time that would never have been lost.
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