Caetano Penna
ESPT
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Publications Advisory Teaching Writing Talks About Press

Writing

1Notes on talks

  1. Penna, C.C.R. (2026). Latin American industrial policy survives in disguise. Babbage Forum 2026, University of Cambridge; keynote.
  2. Penna, C.C.R. (2026). Brazil's AI plan will be decided on the demand side. International Symposium on Immunobiologicals, Fiocruz; speaker.
  3. Penna, C.C.R. (2025). A mission needs a diagnosis of capabilities before it needs a budget. OECD Mission Community of Practice; speaker.
  4. Penna, C.C.R. (2025). Technological sovereignty alone will give AI a gilded age. International Symposium "Foresight in a Rapidly Changing World"; speaker.
  5. Penna, C.C.R. (2024). Research on mission-oriented policy is moving from concepts to evaluation.

2Essays and commentary

  1. Penna, C.C.R. (2026). The plan that landed in my lap. How the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Plan came about: from the challenge President Lula put to the National Council for Science and Technology in March 2024, to the delivery of the plan four months later, and what came next.
  2. Penna, C.C.R. (2025). Além do padrão: reflexões sobre IA e inteligência humana. A partir do texto de Silvio Meira sobre singularidade e superinteligência, uma reflexão sobre os limites da IA estatística — e por que a compreensão genuína exige corpo, emoção e história.
  3. Penna, C.C.R. (2026). Crustacean Nations: The Geopolitics of Survival under the Donroe Doctrine. CEBRI-Revista.
  4. Penna, C.C.R. (2008). Primeiro, o diagnóstico. O Globo, Opinião, p. 7. Op-ed on the G20 and the global financial crisis, published ahead of the Washington summit. catalogue record, Brazilian Senate Library