Ghosts of Electricity
Alex Imas, Rohit Krishnan, Jeremy Nguyen, Andrey Fradkin, Soumitra Shukla, Arpit Gupta, Andy Hall, Séb KrierEssays on the economics of AI and technological change.
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Experiments to preserve liberty in an algorithmic world. Prof @ Stanford GSB & Hoover.
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