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AI alignment steers artificial intelligence systems towards behaving according to human values and preferences. This article explores how limits in generalization, value specification, interpretability, scalable oversight, and verification collectively make perfect alignment difficult to achieve.

Market participants use oil futures to lock in oil prices to reduce exposure to price shocks and profit from predicting movements in global energy markets. This piece explains how oil futures contracts work and compare to other financial instruments for trading crude oil, particularly oil forwards.

Small cars have been quietly disappearing from American roads and dealerships in recent years. Part One of a three-part series on the death of small cars lays out the evidence for declining production of compact and subcompact models, and covers the socioeconomic implications of the shift to larger vehicles.

Oil futures markets allow buyers and sellers to hedge volatile oil prices and speculate on market movements. This article explains how oil futures markets work, why they matter, and who trades oil there.

Crude oil is one of the most valuable and highly demanded commodities in the world today. But how is it bought and sold? This deep dive explores how the spot and forward markets for trading crude oil work.