AI, Models, and the Limits of Climate Assumptions with Sarah Kapnick
We sit down with Dr. Sarah Kapnick at Climate Tech Connect in Washington, D.C. in a conversation covers the time-horizon problem at the heart of climate finance, what the PG&E bankruptcy revealed abou...
13 Huhti 27min
Can Models Still Work When Everything Changes at Once? With Christiane Baumeister
This week I speak with Dr. Christiane Baumeister, a professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on global oil market dynamics — disentangling the supply and demand forces that dri...
1 Huhti 52min
(Preview) China's Growing Risk Data Moat and the US Brain Drain With Hui Su
A conversation with Dr. Hui Su, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and one of the leading researchers working at the intersection of satellite data, artificial intellige...
25 Maalis 5min
Confidence as a Service With Eric Winsberg
We speak with Eric Winsberg: a philosopher of science at Cambridge and the University of South Florida, who has thought hard about what happens when models move from the lab into the world and into p...
18 Maalis 1h
(Preview) The $232 Billion Storm No One Is Pricing With Moody's Chris Lafakis
Chris Lafakis and his team did the first analysis to combine Moody's catastrophe modeling infrastructure with a full macroeconomic model. The results are eye opening.This is a preview of the Risky Sci...
11 Maalis 10min
How Hurricane Risk Really Gets Priced with Dr. Ben Collier
Dr. Ben Collier, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his fellow researchers published a recent paper that uses twenty years of Florida data to trace a direct line from cat model re...
4 Maalis 55min
Black Box Problems, Machine Judgment and the Rules Nobody's Written Yet With Daniel Schwarcz
A conversation with Daniel Schwarcz, professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he teaches insurance law, contract law, tort law, and financial regulation and his academic work sits at...
18 Helmi 53min
AI Risk, Markets and Modeling the Unknown With Daniel Reti
In this episode of the Risky Science Podcast we are joined by Danie Retil, co-founder of Exona Labs, a startup building AI risk modeling and quantification tools.
11 Helmi 42min
