Economics of Artificial Intelligence Conference
Ajay K. Agrawal, Joshua S. Gans, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers
September 23-24, 2021
on Zoom.us
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| Thursday, September 23 | ||||
| FORMAT: Each presenter will have 10 minutes, followed by 10 minutes per discussant and 20 minutes for comments from the audience. | ||||
| 10:00 am | Welcome | |||
| AI will reduce the total number of jobs | ||||
| 10:15 am |
What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France |
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AI, Firms and Wages: Evidence from India
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| 11:15 am |
Talk by Marzyeh Ghassemi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology F-AI-Rest of Them All While clinical AI and medical risk scores have received much attention for their potential to achieve above-human performance, there are many concerns about their ability to mimic societal bias. In this talk, Dr. Ghassemi explores the difficulty of making state-of-the-art machine learning models behave as we say, not as we do, and how technical choices that seems natural in other settings may not work well in health. |
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| 11:45 am | Break and time to fill out survey—Economists' Views on the Future of AI? | |||
| From a welfare perspective, AI adoption is too slow | ||||
| 12:15 pm |
How Does Labor Mobility Affect Business Adoption of a GPT? The Case of Machine Learning |
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What Determines AI Adoption?
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| 1:15 pm | Break | |||
| 1:45 pm |
Results - Economists' Views on the Future of AI Anton Korinek, University of Virginia and NBER |
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| AI will make financial markets significantly more efficient | ||||
| 2:00 pm |
From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The Art and AI of Stock Analyses |
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Workplace Automation and Corporate Financial Policies
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| 3:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Friday, September 24 | ||||
| AI will substantially reduce competition | ||||
| 10:00 am |
Bias-Variance Games |
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Product Recommendations and Market Concentration |
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Artificial Intelligence and Pricing: The Impact of Algorithm Design
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| AI will substantially increase income inequality | ||||
| 11:30 am |
Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance |
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AI Training for Online Entrepreneurs: An Experiment with Two Million New Sellers on an E-Commerce Platform
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| 12:30 pm | Break | |||
| AI will substantively change the skills needed in the workplace of the future | ||||
| 1:00 pm |
The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job |
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How Does AI Improve Human Decision-Making? Evidence from the AI-Powered Go Program
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| AI will benefit larger cities at the expense of smaller cities and rural areas | ||||
| 2:00 pm |
Immigration and Regional Specialization in AI |
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Is Distance from Innovation a Barrier to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence?
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| 3:00 pm | Concluding Remarks | |||
| 3:10 pm | Adjourn | |||