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Nature 627, 483-485 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00790-6
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Competing Interests
A.S. is on the external advisory board of Jupiter Intelligence, Inc., and receives sponsored research funding in his position at Columbia University from companies in the (re)insurance industry.
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