Freakonometrics

Two years ago, my book “Insurance, Biases, Discrimination and Fairness” was published in the Springer Actuarial series.

Discrimination in insurance is a difficult topic because, in a very specific sense, insurers are expected to discrimina...

Un rapport présentant l’assurance des catastrophes naturelles au Japon est en ligne dans la collection des documents de la Chaire PARI,

I was invited to give a talk at the “IFoA AI Ethics Governance & Risk Management forum” at the end of the week. I uploaded some slides to start the discussion.

This post was initially written in French, La technologie nous sauvera-t-elle ?

I feel as though I keep hearing, more and more often, that climate change is above all a problem of innovation. Emissions continue to rise, targets keep slipping out of reach, yet...

J’ai l’impression d’entendre de plus en plus souvent dire que le climat est avant tout un problème d’innovation. Les émissions continuent d’augmenter, les objectifs se dérobent, mais on essaye de peupler notre imaginaire collectif de machines à capturer le carbone, d’intelligences artificielles capables d’optimiser la transition, voire de techniques de modification du climat....