Speakers

Andrey Fradkin

Boston University - Questrom School of Business

Susan Zhang

Stealth Startup

Basil Halperin

University of Virginia

Danial Lashkari

NY Fed, MIT FutureTech

Flavio Calvino

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Joshua S. Gans

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

Maryam Farboodi

MIT Sloan School of Management

Rebekah Dix

Yale University

Organizers

Susan Zhang

Stealth Startup

Aaron Kaye

BU Questrom

Danial Lashkari

NY Fed

Joseph Emmens

MIT FutureTech

Kazimier Smith

MIT FutureTech

Agenda

Friday, December 5th

8:30 AM

Breakfast and Welcome

9:00 AM

Transformative AI, Existential Risk, and Real Interest Rates

Trevor Chow, Basil Halperin, J. Zachary Mazlish

University of Virginia

09:45 AM

Coffee Break

10:05 AM

Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?

Isaiah Andrews and Maryam Farboodi

MIT Sloan School of Management

10:50 AM

Coffee Break

11:10 AM

Growth in AI Knowledge

Joshua S. Gans

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

AI and Scale: A Quantitative Task-Based Theory of Automation

Danial Lashkari, Wensu Li, Christina Qiu, and Neil Thompson

NY Fed, MIT FutureTech

2:15 PM

Coffee Break

2:35 PM

AI Users Are Not All Alike: The Characteristics of French Firms Buying andDeveloping AI

Flavio Calvino and Luca Fontanelli

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

3:20 PM

Coffee Break

3:40 PM

How On-Demand Inputs Change Firm Production and Business Dynamism: The Case
of Cloud Computing

James Brand, Rebekah Dix and Mert Demirer

Yale University

4:25 PM

Coffee Break

4:45 PM

The Emerging Market for Intelligence: The Supply, Demand, and Usage of LLMs

Andrey Fradkin, Nadav Tadelis, James Brand, and Sida Peng

Boston University - Questrom School of Business

6:00 PM

Reception and Dinner for Speakers and Invited Attendees - Row 34

Locations

Contact

Workshop Organizers: Aaron Kaye (BU Questrom), Danial Lashkari (NY Fed), Joseph Emmens (MIT), Kazimier Smith (MIT)
For questions, contact Shiobhain Warren-Jenkins (sjenkins@csail.mit.edu)