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Dec 10, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Igor Tulchinsky
Thank you, President-elect Donald Trump, for your leadership in demanding the freedom of all hostages held captive by Hamas in Gaza since its terrorist onslaught on October 7, 2023. The ongoing campaign to free the hostages has sparked intense debate over the best way to advocate for their release. Two prominent calls to action – #LetThemGoNow and #BringThemHomeNow – reflect differing approaches to this urgent humanitarian crisis.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
msn.com | Igor Tulchinsky
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Igor Tulchinsky
CLOSE X Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! In his 2008 book, Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear, Canadian academic Dan Gardner sought to trace humanity's various ills to one source—our inability to accurately evaluate risk. He posits that the 24-hour news cycle—and the havoc it has wreaked on our psyches—has created a dynamic which has increasingly skewed our judgement of what is or is not dangerous and risks proximate to our lives.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
institutionalinvestor.com | Michelle Celarier |Alicia McElhaney |Igor Tulchinsky |Julie Segal
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
devicedaily.com | Igor Tulchinsky
How to measure economic output in an AI-assisted world
By Igor Tulchinsky August 22, 2023 A recent suggested that generative AI could drive a 7% uptick in global GDP. What if, though, such statements were a kind of category error?
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Igor Tulchinsky |Christopher Mason |Paul Dicken |Tyler Hummel
Vaccination was introduced to Europe and North America in the early 1700s. It was met with considerable skepticism (if not outright hostility), and explicitly banned in some countries. The process, however, was finally redeemed through statistics. In 1766 the Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernouilli extracted the relevant rates of susceptibility and fatality from census records and predicted an average improvement of 14 years of life expectancy for those inoculated against smallpox.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
institutionalinvestor.com | Dan Weil |Igor Tulchinsky |Michelle Celarier
With the US Open concluding on Sunday, the thoughts of many investors have turned to tennis. One of them is Orlando Bravo, founder and managing partner of private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Generally acclaimed as one of the top-two private equity players in the software space (along with Vista Equity Partners), Thoma Bravo has more than $130 billion of assets under management.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
institutionalinvestor.com | Igor Tulchinsky |Christopher Mason |MIT Press |Michelle Celarier
In the Age of Prediction, Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk, Tulchinsky, founder of quantitative hedge fund WorldQuant, and Mason, a geneticist and computational biologist, jointly question how the evolution of artificial intelligence, data, and prediction will play out in finance, medicine, crime fighting, elections and other disparate areas — and where complex solutions and problems overlap.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
slguardian.org | Igor Tulchinsky Christopher E. Mason |Igor Tulchinsky |Christopher E. Mason
The following excerpts are adapted from the authors’ recent book, The Age of Prediction, published by MIT PressHumanity has entered a new era. We are now living in a world that is increasingly wired by billions of predictive algorithms, a world in which almost everything can be predicted and risk and uncertainty appear to be diminishing in almost all areas of life. We are living longer, thanks to advances in health care and precision medicine.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
bigthink.com | Igor Tulchinsky |Christopher E. Mason
Adapted from The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk by Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason. Copyright © 2023 Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason. Published by The MIT Press. Reprinted with permission. Some critics have long viewed polling as an attack on democracy, potentially poisoning that source of democratic legitimacy, voting. In 1996, a journalist named Daniel S.
