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A Taxonomy of AI Experiments

AI is everywhere these days. Including economic experiments. But what exactly are AI experiments? What bar does an experiment have to clear to deserve that honorable label? That’s the very question Christina Strobel and I were both pondering, and it’s what brought us together on this project. Why were we thinking about it? It’s a question we often heard while we presented our own work. “Why is that an AI experiment?