Marketplace All-in-One The "Super Bowl" of energy
Mar 23, 2026
Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and author on AI risk, warns about pausing massive, poorly understood training runs and calls for international oversight. Elizabeth Troval, Marketplace reporter at CERAWeek, brings on-the-ground reporting about how Middle East disruptions are reshaping global oil and gas markets. They discuss high-stakes energy shifts and governance for powerful AI.
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Middle East War Is Reshaping Global Oil Markets
- The Middle East war has caused the largest disruption to global oil and gas markets in modern energy history.
- S&P Global's Atul Aria and others at CERAWeek frame this as a pivotal moment driving expectations of a permanently higher long-term price scenario for crude oil.
CERAWeek Brings Top Energy Players Together In Houston
- Thousands of energy executives are paying up to $11,000 to attend CERAWeek to debate responses to the chaotic energy landscape.
- Elizabeth Troval reports attendees include Shell, Chevron, Ford, NVIDIA and speakers like U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Maria Corina Machado.
Pause Frontier Training Runs Until Risks Are Understood
- Pause the unchecked race to build far-more-powerful AI systems when no one understands their consequences.
- Nate Soares says this doesn't require stopping current useful AI applications but does require halting massive, frontier training runs on new specialized chips.