2nd Conference on Macroeconomics in the Age of AI

[Agenda in PDF]

Day 1: Friday, March 6th, 2020

Session 1:

8:50am Opening remarks by Anton Korinek

9:00am Joseph Stiglitz: Lecture on “AI and the Future of Work: A Developing Country Perspective” [Slides | Paper coming soon]

10:00am Coffee Break

10:30am Ivan Werning: “Robots, Trade, and Luddism: A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation” (with Arnaud Costinot) [Slides | Paper]

11:30am Pascual Restrepo: “Task Displacement and Wage Inequality” (with Daron Acemoglu) [Slides | Paper coming soon]

Lunch:

12:30pm Luncheon Speech by Daniel Susskind: “A World without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond” [Slides | Book]

Session 2:

2:15pm Siddharth Kothari: “Will the AI Revolution Cause a Great Divergence?” (with Cristian Alonso, Andy Berg, Chris Papageorgiou, Sidra Rehman) [Slides | Paper coming soon]

3:15pm Coffee break

3:40pm The Economics of AI: Policies for People: Policy Panel with Kristalina Georgieva, Deborah Greenfield, Joseph Stiglitz [Video and Event Webpage]

4:45pm Anton Korinek: “Steering Progress in Artificial Intelligence” (with Joseph Stiglitz) [Slides | Paper coming soon]

6:00pm Drinks followed by Dinner: Dinner remarks by Jason Matheny, Center for Security and Emerging Technologies: “Security Implications of AI”

Day 2: Saturday, March 7th

Session 3:

9:00am David Baqaee: “Entry versus Rents” (with Emmanuel Farhi) [Slides coming soon | Paper coming soon]

10:00am Coffee Break

10:30am Ufuk Akcigit: “Tapping into Talent: Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth” (with Jeremy Pearce and Marta Prato)

11:30am Chris Tonetti: “Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data” (with Chad Jones) [Slides | Paper]

12:30pm: Lunch and Concluding Discussion: Macroeconomic Externalities and Covid-19

Conference Organizers: Andy Berg, Emmanuel Farhi, Anton Korinek, Chris Papageorgiou and Joseph Stiglitz

**We gratefully acknowledge financial support from INET, the IMF, and Columbia Business School as well as all the logistical help by Jing DiBerardino and Gabriela Plump.

Click here for the program of the 1st INET/IMF Conference on the Macroeconomics of AI.