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'We all have a voice' on AI, says head of US bishops' new task force
September 18, 2026
Megan Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame (professor of philosophy and founding director of the Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good) has offered to provide a menu of formation opportunities for bishops and for dioceses.
Associated Press
Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman, a post he has held since 1970
September 18, 2026
Michael Withers, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, said Buffett took a deliberate approach to Berkshire Hathaway’s succession plans and has carried out the transition step by step. “Buffett seems to have understood that succeeding him wasn’t just about finding another extraordinary leader,” he said. “It was about building a structure that could preserve what makes Berkshire different long after he has stepped away. The test moving forward will be whether Abel and Howard can honor that legacy while still giving Berkshire room to adapt to a market that looks very different from the one Buffett mastered.”
Wired
The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
September 18, 2026
If anything, collectively agreeing not to implement safety measures could expose the AI labs to allegations of “quality fixing,” says Roger Alford, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and the former second-in-command for the DOJ Antitrust Division. That’s when companies mutually agree not to improve their own products; Alford points to a European antitrust case in which car companies worked together to develop emissions-reducing technology but agreed to not compete on improvements beyond what the law required.
Reuters
Berkshire Hathaway looks to keep culture intact as Howard Buffett ascends
September 18, 2026
"This one is really about continuity," said Michael Withers, a management professor at the University of Notre Dame's business school. "The test moving forward will be whether Abel and Howard can honor [Warren Buffett's] legacy while still giving Berkshire room to adapt to a market that looks very different from the one Buffett mastered."
The Washington Post
Britain walks back from the assisted-suicide brink
September 17, 2026
In his 2020 book “What It Means to Be Human,” O. Carter Snead, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, explains that much of contemporary bioethics law has in mind a vision of a person who is competent, independent, strong-willed and intent on exercising his autonomy.
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