Public Policy in an AI Economy

Austan Goolsbee

No 24653, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: H0 L16 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-05
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Published as Public Policy in an AI Economy , Austan Goolsbee. in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda , Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb. 2019

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