How to make ‘smart city’ technologies behave ethically
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New research demonstrates that China's Green Credit Guidelines significantly strengthen the peer effect in ESG compliance among brown firms. Using a natural experiment approach, the study reveals how environmental regulations create behavioural convergence in corporate sustainability practices, though with asymmetric effects across different market contexts.
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) will hold the International Symposium focusing on weather controllability from October 30 to 31 in Tokyo and online. Moonshot program members will report on their achievements and top researchers from around the world will give lectures concerning research and development of "weather-control technologies."
New AI Controller Stabilizes Complex Economic Growth Models
Breakthrough research combines differential flatness theory and adaptive fuzzy control to manage economic uncertainties, offering a novel tool for policy simulation and stabilization.
[Greece/Tunisia/Italy] – A team of international researchers has developed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) method to control and stabilize the Uzawa-Lucas endogenous growth model, a cornerstone economic theory that describes the interaction between physical capital (like machinery) and human capital (like skills and knowledge). This novel approach, which functions without needing a precise mathematical model of the economy, could provide a powerful new tool for economists and policymakers to design more stable and effective economic policies.