Hacker News with Generative AI: Risk Management

Top OpenAI Catastrophic Risk Official Steps Down Abruptly (garrisonlovely.substack.com)
OpenAI's top safety staffer responsible for mitigating catastrophic risks quietly stepped down from the role weeks ago, according to a LinkedIn announcement posted yesterday.

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Safety, Risk Management

61 points by FinnLobsien 9 days ago | 49 comments

India looks to new economic playbook as risks mount (japantimes.co.jp)
After India achieved world-beating economic growth last year, its policymakers are scrambling to head off a sharp slowdown as worsening global conditions and domestic confidence wipe out a recent stock market rally.

India, Economics, Global Economy, Risk Management

4 points by PaulHoule 87 days ago | 0 comments

Risks, mitigation, and protection, for incoming U.S. government change (ycombinator.com)
It's difficult to predict exactly how the incoming US government will affect US tech and services, but the consequence of failure to manage and mitigate risk to individuals (whether american or rest of world) seems worryingly severe

US Politics, Technology, Risk Management, Cybersecurity

4 points by aeim 136 days ago | 3 comments

Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017) (risk-engineering.org)
High-hazard activities rely on rules, procedures and standards to specify safe ways of operating.

Risk Management, Safety, Engineering, Deviance

213 points by yamrzou 219 days ago | 103 comments

Diversification is a negative price lunch (outcastbeta.com)
We will see how the diversification assessment framework provided by conventional finance theory is not applicable to what long-term investors really care about – compounded returns. As long-term investors care about geometric (instead of arithmetic) expected return, we will find that diversifiable risk is not only uncompensated but costly. As a consequence, diversification is not only free, but negative price lunch. What are the implications of all this? Let’s have a look.

Finance, Investing, Risk Management, Diversification

16 points by sebg 219 days ago | 9 comments

Best way to set up a risky blog? (ycombinator.com)

Blogging, Risk Management, Content Creation

36 points by 1024core 250 days ago | 35 comments

Fair Source: Sustainability with no customer risk (pepicrft.me)

Sustainability, Business, Risk Management

30 points by ezekg 258 days ago | 66 comments

CDK Global Hack Shows Risk of One Software Vendor Dominating an Industry (wsj.com)

Cybersecurity, Software, Industry Dominance, Risk Management

4 points by speckx 298 days ago | 0 comments

Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk (ycombinator.com)