


	Wednesday, September 25
6:30 pm	Group Dinner at Signatures Restaurant - Intercontinental Hotel
	Thursday, September 26
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast - Barclay Room, Second Floor
9:00 am	Introductions
9:15 am	How Automation that Substitutes for Labor Affects Production Networks, Growth, and Income Inequality Matthew Jackson, Stanford University Zafer Kanik Discussant: Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
10:00 am	New Frontiers: The Evolving Content and Geography of New Work in the 20th Century David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Anna M. Salomons, Utrecht University Discussant: Patrick Francois, University of British Columbia
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Session: Regulation
	How Would AI Regulation Change Firms' Behavior? Evidence from Thousands of Managers Yong Suk Lee, University of Notre Dame Benjamin Larsen, Copenhagen Business School Michael Webb, Stanford University Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, California Supreme Court and Stanford University
	Regulatory Markets for AI Safety Jack A. Clark, OpenAI Gillian Hadfield, University of Toronto
	Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment about Algorithmic Bias Bo Cowgill, Columbia University Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Harvard Business School Discussant: Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch - Barclay Room, Second Floor Presentation by Steve Jurvetson, Future Ventures Accelerating Change — Iterating to Superintelligence Presentation by Abraham Heifets, CEO, Atomwise, Inc. Portfolios of Discovery: Increasing Success and Reducing Variance in Drug Discovery with AI Discussion by Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER/ followed by Open Discussion
2:00 pm	Service Quality in the Gig Economy: Empirical Evidence about Driving Quality at Uber Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Bharat Chandar, Stanford University Discussant: Matt Taddy, Amazon
2:45 pm	Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University Joshua Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley Discussant: Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
3:30 pm	White Collar Technological Change: Evidence from Job Posting Data Marcus Dillender, Vanderbilt University and NBER Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Discussant: Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan and NBER
4:15 pm	Break
4:30 pm	Session: Applications of Machine Learning
	Predictably Unequal? The Effects of Machine Learning on Credit Markets Andreas Fuster, EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University and NBER Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London Ansgar Walther, Imperial College London
	Reading China: Predicting Policy Change with Machine Learning Julian Tszkin Chan, Bates White Economic Consulting Weifeng Zhong, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
	Machine Learning, Human Experts, and the Valuation of Real Assets Mathieu Aubry, École des Ponts ParisTech Roman Kräussl, Bayes Business School Gustavo Manso, University of California at Berkeley Christophe Spaenjers, University of Colorado Boulder Discussant: Mara Lederman, University of Toronto
5:30 pm	Panel Discussion on Task-Based and Systems Models with Timothy Bresnahan, David Autor, and Pascual Restrepo
6:00 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner Gardiner Museum 111 Queens Park, Toronto Presentation by Jack A. Clark, OpenAI
	Friday, September 27
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast - Barclay Room, Second Floor
8:30 am	IT, AI and the Growth of Intangible Capital Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania Lorin Hitt, University of Pennsylvania Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Daniel Rock, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:15 am	Session: AI and Innovation
	Engineering Value: The Returns to Technological Talent and Investments in Artificial Intelligence Daniel Rock, University of Pennsylvania
	Deep Learning, Deep Change? Mapping the Development of the Artificial Intelligence General Purpose Technology Joel M. Klinger, Nesta Juan C. Mateos-Garcia, Nesta Konstantinos M. Stathoulopoulos, Nesta
	Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Commercial Innovation Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER John McHale, University of Galway Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER Discussant: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	How Does Compliance Affect the Returns to Algorithms? Evidence from Boston's Restaurant Inspectors Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER Andrew Hillis, Harvard University Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER Discussant: Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
11:30 am	Session: What Happens to Workers?
	Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: Evidence from Analysts Jill Grennan, Emory University Roni Michaely, University of Hong Kong
	Automatic Reaction – What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate? James Bessen, Boston University Maarten Goos, Utrecht University Anna M. Salomons, Utrecht University Wiljan van den Berge, Utrecht University
	Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement (slides) Seth G. Benzell, Chapman University Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER Guillermo LaGarda, Inter-American Development Bank Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University and NBER Discussant: Jason Furman, Harvard University
12:30 pm	Lunch - Barclay Room, Second Floor Presentation by Tomi Poutanen, Layer 6
2:00 pm	Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era Robert P. Bartlett III, Stanford University Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Richard Stanton, University of California at Berkeley Nancy Wallace, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Stefan Hunt, Keystone Strategy
2:45 pm	Managing Intelligence: Skilled Experts and AI in Markets for Complex Products Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Discussant: Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
3:30 pm	Wrap Up and Closing Remarks
3:35 pm	Adjourn
	FORMAT: Regular sessions: 20 mins presenter, 10 mins discussion, 15 mins Q&A. Short paper sessions: 10 mins presenter, 15 mins discussion, 15 mins Q&A.

Participants

Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Anna Airoldi, New York University
Ryan T. Allen, Harvard University
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sarah Bana, Stanford University
Sandra Barbosu
Seth G. Benzell, Chapman University
James Bessen, Boston University
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
Joel N. Blit, University of Waterloo
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Emilio Calvano, LUISS University
Julian Tszkin Chan, Bates White Economic Consulting
Qingqing Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Ruyu Chen, Stanford University
Edmund Clark, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Jack A. Clark, OpenAI
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Harvard Business School
Hélène Desmarais, University of Montreal
Luise Eisfeld, HEC Lausanne
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Mohsen Foroughifar, University of Toronto
Ramin Forouzandeh, University of Toronto
Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick Francois, University of British Columbia
Jason Furman, Harvard University
Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto and NBER
Nancy Gallini, University of British Columbia
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Raffi E. Garcia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Laura V. Gati, European Central Bank
Marzyeh Ghassemi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Goetz, University of Toronto
Samuel Goldberg, Stanford University
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Zheng Gong, University of Toronto
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Sanjana Goswami, National University of Singapore
Jillian Grennan, Emory University
Gillian Hadfield, University of Toronto
Abraham Heifets, Atomwise, Inc.
Ariel Herbert-Voss, Harvard University
Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto
Lorin Hitt, University of Pennsylvania
Stefan Hunt, Keystone Strategy
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Moein Javadian, University of Toronto
Genevieve Jurvetson, Fetcher
Steve Jurvetson, Future Ventures
Zafer Kanik
Ritt Keerati, Federal Reserve Board
Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD
Timo Klein, University of Amsterdam
Samsun Knight, Brown University

Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Anton Korinek, University of Virginia and NBER
Guillermo LaGarda, Inter-American Development Bank
Rahul Ladhania, University of Michigan
Benjamin Larsen, Copenhagen Business School
Mara Lederman, University of Toronto
Yong Suk Lee, University of Notre Dame
Gregory Lewis, Amazon
Shannon X. Liu, University of Toronto
Bowen Lou, University of Connecticut
Wei Lu, University of Toronto
Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
David Madras, University of Toronto
Gosia Majewska, Toulouse School of Economics
Gustavo Manso, University of California at Berkeley
Juan C. Mateos-Garcia, Nesta
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
John McHale, University of Galway
Jeanine Miklós-Thal, University of Rochester
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Alex Moehring, Purdue University
Felix S. Montag, LMU Munich
Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Emily Oehlsen, University of Oxford
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Georgios Petropoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tomi Poutanen, Layer 6
Xincheng Qiu, Arizona State University
Karthik Rajkumar, Stanford University
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
Daniel Rock, University of Pennsylvania
Anna M. Salomons, Utrecht University
Amir Sariri, Purdue University
Scott D. Schanke, University of Minnesota
Robert Seamans, New York University
Hammad Shaikh, University of Toronto
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Rahul Singh, Harvard
Rahul P. Sinha, Greater Greater Washington
Katherine A. Stapleton, University of Oxford
Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan and NBER
Matt Taddy, Amazon
Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania
Shibin Tang, University of Toronto
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Eray Turkel, Stanford University
Hal R. Varian, Google
Kaushik Vasudevan, Purdue University
Ansgar Walther, Imperial College London
Michael Webb, Stanford University
Ruoxi Xie, University of Toronto
Masahiro Yoshida, Waseda University
Michal Zator, University of Notre Dame
Huiyan Zhang, Tsinghua University
Weifeng Zhong, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Alicia von Schenk, Goethe University Frankfurt