Joshua Gans

The bubble risk in AI investment boom The more productive path forward is to recognize AI's strengths, acknowledge its limits and invest accordingly in the human capabilities that make any transformative technology truly valuable.

I comment on the AI bubble risk in China Daily. www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202512/11/...

Transformative AI and the Increase in Returns to Experimentation: Policy Implications — Digitalist Papers Transformative AI will generate a genius supply shock: abundant, cheap, and fast agents that can outperform human beings across many domains. But society is likely to adapt too slowly to this remarkab...

New paper with Ajay Agrawal in the Digitalist Papers. www.digitalistpapers.com/vol2/agrawal...

A copy of "The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence" by Joshua Gans on a plain background.

Joshua Gans' comprehensive textbook "Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence" examines the relationship between AI prediction and economic decision, focusing on the impacts that arise within firms or industries: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255354... @joshgans.bsky.social

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Publication day for The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence. My 2 year long project to gather all of the models that you need to study the impact of AI on the economy. www.amazon.com/Microeconomi...

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Covid!

Here's Matthew Effect ... again meta ...

Acemoglu dominance. Look at those market shares. Now this is some serious power inequality going on.

Bayesian persuasion ...

Prediction machines. ...

And this for "large language model" (evidence of a singularity?) That blip in 2011 was this "Unknown authors 2011 Journal of Financial Economics Relevance: 0.484"

Went all meta on @paulgp.com 's new tool and looked to see what the trends in event studies were.

Self-regulating artificial general intelligence - AI & SOCIETY This paper examines the paperclip apocalypse concern for artificial general intelligence. This arises when a superintelligent AGI with a simple goal (ie, producing paperclips) accumulates power so tha...

Glad to see this finally published. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

I am not opposed to editors publishing in their own journals, but look at the Management Science publication count for David Simchi-Levi, who was EIC from 2019 to 2023.

YEAR. COUNT
1990 1
1992 1
2000 1
2019 2
2021 2
2022 10
2023 4
2024 1
2025 4

GitHub - showlab/Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers. Contribute to showlab/Paper2Video development by creating an account on GitHub.

Paper2Video takes a paper, a picture and audio sample and creates a presentation. Well I guess we are done here. github.com/showlab/Pape...

Does narrative coherence affect a film’s financial performance? A deep dive into how over 10,000 movies and millions of audience signals help us work out if making sense makes cents.

There is a surprising correlation between movie's narrative coherence and its profitability. open.substack.com/pub/stephenf...

What to do about AI referee reports? The answer is: use AI

AI referee reports are disruptive but I think we can use AI, quite easily, to improve the peer review system. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...

Triply? It’s a bit much.

They line up perfectly.

Justin appears on TV alot but his hair always seems somewhat different.

That seems obvious to me.

62 Years Ago Today:

62 Years Ago Today:

Google Gemini is going to get great elasticity of demand data this morning.

Massive cloudfare outage has taken down a ton of stuff.

NBER Organizational Economics Working Group YouTube video by NBER

My talk on "A Model of the Babbage Firm" at NBER Org Econ last week. www.youtube.com/live/K3sD2Qm...

Thermomix pie.

Was referring to developing a tool to help professors allow students to get answers to their questions easily which many on this platform decided was the end of the world.

U of T hires three top U.S. scholars, plans for 100 new postdocs New hires include Canadian-born MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager

Very glad to see this finally announced. Was very much at the heart of this recruiting and really looking forward to Jacquelyn Pless and Mark Duggan joining the UT community. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...

It can be confusing for people when all the rooms are decorated the same way to find the right one.

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