Speakers

Mert Demirer

MIT Sloan

Susan Zhang

Stealth Startup

Chad Jones

Stanford GSB

Danial Lashkari

LSE

Rembrand Koning

Harvard Business School

Zoe Cullen

Harvard Business School

Martin Beraja

UC Berkeley

Joel Waldfogel

University of Minnesota

Organizers

Susan Zhang

Stealth Startup

Jesse Silbert

MIT

Danial Lashkari

LSE

Raman Chhina

MIT

Omeed Maghzian

MIT

Agenda

Friday, September 11th

8:20 AM

Breakfast

8:50 AM

Welcome

Session 1

9:00 AM

Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools

Mert Demirer, Leon Musolff and Liyuan Yang

MIT Sloan

09:45 AM

Break

10:05 AM

Growth and Automation: The Race Between Machine Capabilities and Comparative Advantage

Danial Lashkari, Omeed Maghzian, Matthias Mertens, Christina Qiu and Neil Thompson

LSE

10:50 AM

Break

Keynote

11:10 AM

AI and Our Economic Future

Chad Jones

Stanford GSB

12:10 PM

Lunch

1:10 PM

Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Performance

Hyunjin Kim, Dahyeon Kim and Rembrand Koning

Harvard Business School

1:55 PM

Break

2:15 PM

Labor as Capital: AI and the Ownership of Expertise

Zoe Cullen, Danielle Li and Shengwu Li

Harvard Business School

3:00 PM

Break

Session 3

3:20 PM

The Value of Codifying Organizational Knowledge

Martin Beraja and Eduard Talamàs

UC Berkeley

4:05 PM

Break

4:25 PM

AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books

Joel Waldfogel and Imke Reiners

University of Minnesota

6:00 PM

Reception and Dinner for Speakers and Invited Attendees at Catalyst

Locations

Contact

Workshop Organizers: Daniel Lashkari (LSE), Jesse Silbert (MIT), Raman Chhina (MIT), Omeed Maghzian (MIT)
For questions, contact Shiobhain Warren-Jenkins (sjenkins@csail.mit.edu)