AI and the Economy Initiative

Huge thanks to all speakers, participants, and our wonderful staff at @penn_state for making this happen. See you in May for the next edition! Details coming soon

@sarafish_ discussed her work (w/ Shephard, Li, @YannaiGonch, and @RanShorrer) on how LLMs behave in economic environments. Using benchmarks and litmus tests, her work measures how models learn from context and make choices under conflicting objectives. 5/n

Closing the inaugural meeting of @PennStateAIEcon with exciting work on AI and the economy 1/n

Looking forward to day 2! The program and papers are in ai-initiative.psu.edu 9/n

@RuruHoong discussed her work (w/ @B3fuss) on how to design Human-AI interactions. A key idea is to coarsen the information that AI transmits to human users, accounting for human behavioral biases 8/n

What a great first day for the first meeting of @PennStateAIEcon 1/n

Our inaugural workshop kicks off on Monday, with speakers including @LeonMusolff @RuruHoong @alejandroll10 @SophiaKazinnik @LeistenEcon @sarafish_ @SalvadorCande18 @ballesterogh Lawrence Ausubel, Kevin He, and Nathan M. Palmer

📢 Our inaugural workshop is happening next week! Join leading researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how AI is transforming the economy Organized by @ballesterogh, @RanShorrer, @hadi_hoss , and Chloe Tergiman

🚨 We are excited to launch the AI and the Economy Initiative at Penn State Together with the Department of Economics (@PennStateEcon), Smeal College of Business (@SmealCollege), and the College of Information Sciences & Technology (@ISTatPENNSTATE) psu.edu/news/research/…