The economics of artificial intelligence : an agenda / Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, editors.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. It covers four broad themes: AI as a general purpos...

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Other Authors: Agrawal, Ajay (Editor), Gans, Joshua, 1968- (Editor), Goldfarb, Avi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Agrawal, Ajay / Gans, Joshua / Goldfarb, Avi
  • I. AI as a GPT
  • 1. Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics / Brynjolfsson, Erik / Rock, Daniel / Syverson, Chad
  • 2. The Technological Elements of Artificial Intelligence / Taddy, Matt
  • 3. Prediction, Judgment, and Complexity: A Theory of Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence / Agrawal, Ajay / Gans, Joshua / Goldfarb, Avi
  • 4. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation: An Exploratory Analysis / Cockburn, Iain M. / Henderson, Rebecca / Stern, Scott
  • 5. Finding Needles in Haystacks: Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth / Agrawal, Ajay / McHale, John / Oettl, Alexander
  • 6. Artificial Intelligence as the Next GPT: A Political-Economy Perspective / Trajtenberg, Manuel
  • II. Growth, Jobs, and Inequality
  • 7. Artificial Intelligence, Income, Employment, and Meaning / Stevenson, Betsey
  • 8. Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Work / Acemoglu, Daron / Restrepo, Pascual
  • 9. Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth / Aghion, Philippe / Jones, Benjamin F. / Jones, Charles I.
  • 10. Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: The Role of Demand / Bessen, James
  • 11. Public Policy in an AI Economy / Goolsbee, Austan
  • 12. Should We Be Reassured If Automation in the Future Looks Like Automation in the Past? / Furman, Jason
  • 13. R & D, Structural Transformation, and the Distribution of Income / Sachs, Jeffrey D.
  • 14. Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment / Korinek, Anton / Stiglitz, Joseph E.
  • 15. Neglected Open Questions in the Economics of Artificial Intelligence / Cowen, Tyler
  • III. Machine Learning and Regulation
  • 16. Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Industrial Organization / Varian, Hal
  • 17. Privacy, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence / Tucker, Catherine
  • 18. Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Privacy / Jin, Ginger Zhe
  • 19. Artificial Intelligence and International Trade / Goldfarb, Avi / Trefler, Daniel
  • 20. Punishing Robots: Issues in the Economics of Tort Liability and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence / Galasso, Alberto / Luo, Hong
  • IV. Machine Learning and Economics
  • 21. The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics / Athey, Susan
  • 22. Artificial Intelligence, Labor, Productivity, and the Need for Firm-Level Data / Raj, Manav / Seamans, Robert
  • 23. How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Can Impact Market Design / Milgrom, Paul R. / Tadelis, Steven
  • 24. Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Economics / Camerer, Colin F.
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index