economics of AI

The Economics of Babysitting a Robot

I study the costs of interacting with automation technologies in a task-switching environment. In the experiment, subjects choose between a manual option without task-switching and an automated option with task-switching but higher expected earnings. …

A Taxonomy of AI Experiments

We introduce a taxonomy of artificial intelligence (AI) experiments. Our taxonomy produces four types of AI experiments: conceptual AI experiments, stylized AI experiments, quasi-natural AI experiments, and natural AI experiments. At the core of our …