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SI 2026 Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence
Organized by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation July 22-24, 2026 Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA Format: 20 minutes speaker/10 minutes discussant/10 minutes Q & A |
| Wednesday, July 22 | |
| 12:00 pm |
Lunch
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Afternoon Joint Session with Innovation Group |
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| 1:30 pm |
Growth at the Resource Frontier
Discussant:
TBA |
| 2:20 pm |
Platform Governance and Automated Enforcement: Evidence from YouTube Content ID
Discussant:
TBA |
| 3:30 pm |
Elite Talent and Firm Productivity in the Age of AI
Discussant:
TBA |
| 4:20 pm |
Adjourn
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| Thursday, July 23 | |
| 8:30 am |
Coffee and pastries
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| 9:00 am |
Introductions
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| 9:10 am |
End of the Road? Autonomous Vehicles and Displacement Risk
Discussant:
TBA |
| 9:40 am |
Labor, Despite AI
Discussant:
TBA |
| 10:30 am |
Break
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| 11:00 am |
Social Media Toxicity and Mental Health: Experimental Evidence
Discussant:
TBA |
| 11:40 am |
Robust Content Moderation: Theory and Applications
Discussant:
TBA |
| 12:20 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 pm |
Re-organizing Work inside the Firm: Task Change after Technology Adoption
Discussant:
TBA |
| 2:10 pm |
Break
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| 2:40 pm |
AI Adoption and Productivity in Healthcare
Discussant:
TBA |
| 3:40 pm |
Lightning Round
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| 3:40 pm |
Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Performance |
| 3:46 pm |
Learning to Prompt: Human Adaptation in Production with Generative AI |
| 3:53 pm |
Calibrated Coarsening: Designing Information for AI-Assisted Decisions |
| 4:00 pm |
Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling |
| 4:07 pm |
Adverse Selection in the AI Data Commons |
| 4:14 pm |
Openness to AI in Higher Education |
| 4:21 pm |
How Exposed is Higher Education to Artificial Intelligence? |
| 4:28 pm |
Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI |
| 4:35 pm |
Courts of Tomorrow: Evidence from a Nationwide Introduction of Generative AI |
| 4:41 pm |
AI, Authority, and Expert-Client Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Healthcare |
| 4:48 pm |
The Labor Market Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence |
| 4:54 pm |
Generative AI and Market Structure in Open Source Software: Evidence from GitHub Copilot |
| 5:00 pm |
Adjourn
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| 6:00 pm |
Reception & Dinner at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
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| Friday, July 24 | |
| 8:30 am |
Coffee and pastries
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| 9:00 am |
Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Multistage Systems
Discussant:
TBA |
| 9:40 am |
Break
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Data Papers
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| 10:00 am |
How Generative AI Diffuses Inside Organizations: Firm-Level Evidence from ChatGPT Enterprise |
| 10:30 am |
Firm Data on AI |
| 11:00 am |
How People Use ChatGPT |
| 11:30 am |
Break
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| 11:40 am |
The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets
Discussant:
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER |
| 2:00 pm |
Social Media Advertising Loads as Prices
Discussant:
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER |
| 3:10 pm |
Private Labels and Product Imitation: Evidence from Amazon
Discussant:
Leon Musolff, University of Pennsylvania and NBER |
| 4:00 pm |
Adjourn
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