Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence

Ajay K. Agrawal, Joshua S. Gans, Avi Goldfarb

NBER Working Paper No. 24690
Issued in June 2018

---- Acknowledgments ----

Thanks to participants at the 2017 NBER Conference on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence and at the 2018 NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy Conference for ideas and comments. We thank the Sloan Foundation for financial support of the NBER Economics of Artificial Intelligence initiative. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

---- Disclosure of Financial Relationships for Joshua S. Gans ----

I work with the Creative Destruction Lab that advises start-ups some of who are investing in artificial intelligence.

---- Disclosure of Financial Relationships for Avi Goldfarb ----

I have no direct financial interest. I do have technology stocks as part of a broad investment portfolio. In addition, I receive income from a book and from public talks related to my research on the economics of artificial intelligence.

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