Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay K. Agrawal, Joshua S. Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, Organizers
September 13-14, 2017
Willard Room, Second Floor
Toronto, ON Canada
| Tuesday, September 12 | ||||
| 6:30pm | Dinner at Cibo Wine Bar – Yorkville, 133 Yorkville Ave. | |||
| Wednesday, September 13 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental breakfast - Portman Room, Second Floor | |||
| 9:00 am | Introductions | |||
| 9:10 am |
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation
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| 9:55 am |
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Daniel Rock, University of Pennsylvania Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics
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| 10:40 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Paul Milgrom, Stanford University Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Market Design
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| 11:45 am |
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Impact on Economics
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| 12:30 pm |
Lunch - Portman Room, Second Floor Presentation by Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures |
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| 1:45 pm |
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER Prediction, Judgment and Complexity
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Privacy
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| 3:30 pm |
Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER Trade
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| 4:15 pm | Break | |||
| 4:30 pm |
Panel: Impact on Policy Making Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago and NBER Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University and NBER |
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm |
Dinner, Sassafraz, 100 Cumberland Street Dinner Panel: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto and Google Yann LeCun, New York University and Facebook Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University and Apple |
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| Thursday, September 14 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Continental breakfast - Portman Room, Second Floor | |||
| 8:30 am |
Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology Behavioural Economics
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| 9:15 am |
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University and NBER Income Distribution
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth
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| 11:15 am |
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University Historical Context and the Long Run
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| 12:00 noon | Lunch - Portman Room, Second Floor | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Hal Varian, Google Machine Learning, Market Structure and Competition
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| 1:45 pm | Break | |||
| 2:20 pm |
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University and NBER Anton Korinek, University of Virginia and NBER Artificial Intelligence, Worker-Replacing Technological Change, and Income Distribution
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| 3:05 pm |
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Robocalypse Now: Does Productivity Growth Threaten Employment?
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| 3:50 pm | Wrap up and closing remarks | |||
| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |||