TY  - JOUR
AU  - Goolsbee, Austan
TI  - Public Policy in an AI Economy
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 24653
PY  - 2018
Y2  - May 2018
DO  - 10.3386/w24653
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24653
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24653.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Austan Goolsbee
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-5869
Fax: 773/702-0458
E-Mail: goolsbee@chicagobooth.edu
M1  - published as Austan Goolsbee. "Public Policy in an AI Economy," in Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, editors, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda" University of Chicago Press (2019)

M3  - presented at "Economics of Artificial Intelligence", September 13-14, 2017
AB  - This paper considers the role of policy in an AI-intensive economy (interpreting AI broadly). It emphasizes the speed of adoption of the technology for the impact on the job market and the implications for inequality across people and across places. It also discusses the challenges of enacting a Universal Basic Income as a response to widespread AI adoption, discuss pricing, privacy and competition policy the question of whether AI could improve policy making itself.
ER  -