Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence

🎉 Incredible turnout last night for Chicago Data Night!

Thank you to Assistant Prof Haifeng Xu for his fascinating talk on #ProphetArena and the future of forecasting with AI.

Special thanks to #DriveCapital for hosting and @caai-booth.bsky.social AI for sponsoring this amazing event!

AI is not just ending entry-level jobs. It's the end of the career ladder as we know it The most inspiring CEO stories come from workers who rose from entry-level positions at their firms to the top. What happens when AI takes those jobs away?

How has #AI shaped (or disrupted) traditional career pathways?

Chicago Booth's @andershumlum.bsky.social shared insights on the labor market as it shifts with the integration of AI: www.cnbc.com/2025/09/07/a...

The Incredible Power of Being Wrong With the right approach, mistakes can be the fuel for your greatest victories.

"First, people often get uncomfortable when you admit being wrong. Second, how people respond to mistakes, yours or theirs, is an excellent litmus test of character," said CAAI Faculty Director Sanjog Misra

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/incre...

Artificial Writing and Automated Detection Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

How well can #AI detect its own presence in writing?

Chicago Booth's @brianjabarian.bsky.social and @aleximas.bsky.social are uncovering the future of #AI detection tools: www.nber.org/papers/w34223

Since his time at Chicago Booth, Satyajeet Salgar (MBA ‘ 07) has embraced curiosity and serendipity, guided by a relentless drive to create meaningful products and experiences in the world of tech, media…and now #AI: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Bringing AI into Business Education: The Future of Finance A glimpse into how Booth faculty are thinking through AI's role in the classroom.

As #AI evolves and becomes integrated into daily life, our faculty are methodically thinking through ways to equip the next generation of leaders.

Get a glimpse into how Booth faculty like Bradford Levy are thinking through AI's role in the classroom: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Partnering to Advance the Future of AI in Health CAAI and UCSF UC Berkeley’s Computational Precision Health program to jointly host diverse, high-quality health data repository.

The future of medicine starts with access to the right data. With @ucjointcph.bsky.social and @berkeleycdss.bsky.social we're helping researchers use #AI to:

🩺 Predict sudden cardiac death
🧠 Improve TB approaches worldwide
🔬 Find patterns in medical imaging

www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

NSF to invest in new national network of AI-programmable cloud laboratories The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new funding opportunity that would invest up to $100 million to support a network of "programmable cloud laboratories," aimed at expanding access to…

AI-enabled research has entered a new phase of growth: www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-inv...

#AI recruiters place and retain job candidates at higher rates than people.

Chicago Booth's @brianjabarian.bsky.social is collaborating with a large global firm to take a closer look at what this means for the future of recruiting: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...?

The Incredible Power of Being Wrong With the right approach, mistakes can be the fuel for your greatest victories.

"Accept the fact that you’ll be wrong. That’s not failure; it’s feedback," said CAAI Faculty Director Sanjog Misra.

His two cents on the value of making mistakes: www.chicagobooth.edu/review/incre...

72% of US teens have used AI companions, study finds | TechCrunch By "companion," the study is focused on AI chatbots that are designed for users to have more personal conversations with, not AI assistants that work as homework helpers, image generators, or voice as...

Nearly 75% of all teens aged 13 to 17 have chatted with AI—and 52% say they are regular users of #AI companions.

techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/7...

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Why Students Lie About Using AI Chicago Booth’s Alex Imas talks about perceptions of AI use in the classroom.

Why do students lie about using AI?

Chicago Booth's @aleximas.bsky.social talks about perceptions of AI use in the classroom.

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca... #econsky

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algorithms | Becker Friedman Institute SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW INTERACTIVE ↓ ¹ Kleinberg, Jon, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan (2018a) “Human decisions and machine predictions.” Quarterly Journal of Eco...

Using algorithms in pretrial release, medical testing referrals, and workplace safety inspections can yield major benefits—and ultimately pay for themselves over time. Research brief by Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Ashesh Rambachan. ow.ly/9uPk50WsSN1

New Faculty Advance AI Booth welcomes three new professors working at the intersection of AI, technology, business, and society.

As part of Chicago Booth's continued investment in #AI and its role in shaping business, markets, and institutions, three new faculty have joined our community.

Welcome Kawin Ethayarajh, Suproteem Sarkar, and Ted Sumers!

Full story: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

#MachineLearning

We're still reflecting on the many insights shared during the 2025 Midwest Machine Learning Symposium—there are so many bright minds dedicated to advancing the future of machine learning!

#MachineLearning #AI

Wishing PhD student and CAAI affiliate ‪@rafmbatista.bsky.social‬ the best of luck in his next role at Princeton University!

During his time at Booth, Batista explored ideas at the intersection of behavioral science, algorithms, and hypothesis generation: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference The MLESC conference brings together researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and economics.

Registration for the 2025 Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference (MLESC) is now open! Held this year in Chicago, MLESC brings together researchers from around the world working at the intersection of machine learning and economics.

Learn more: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Booth Adds Academic Concentration in Applied AI The new offering prepares MBA students to excel in an increasingly AI-driven marketplace.

“Through the new #AI concentration, we will challenge students to think differently, not just about algorithms, but about how AI reshapes human capital, decision-making, and society itself.” -Chicago Booth's Sanjog Misra, CAAI Faculty Director

Learn more: www.chicagobooth.edu/why-booth/st...

Twenty-six UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships in July 2025

Congrats to all faculty who have been recognized for their stellar contributions!

We're especially thrilled to celebrate the eleven Chicago Booth faculty on this list, among them CAAI Faculty Affiliate @aleximas.bsky.social!

news.uchicago.edu/story/twenty...?

Ethical AI in Healthcare: CAAI Principal Researcher Anna Zink As Anna Zink embarks on a new journey at Tufts University, we celebrate her groundbreaking work at CAAI in shaping ethical AI for healthcare. Her research has tackled bias in machine learning models, ...

We're thrilled to celebrate our Principal Research Anna Zink! This fall, she'll join the Community Health Department at ‪@tufts.edu as Assistant Professor.

Read about her impact in #AI and #healthcare during her time at CAAI: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Do You Look Trustworthy? Not to Everyone Research explores to what degree perceived traits are in the eye of the beholder.

What traits signal trustworthiness?

Chicago Booth researchers used #AI visualize perceptions of trustworthiness and how they're shaped by different contexts.

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/do-yo...?

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Excited to welcome MIT PhD students Flora Shi and Alana Marzoev to MLESI 2025!

Flora studies how strategic behavior affects statistical inference. Alana works on large language models + probabilistic reasoning.

Looking forward to having them this summer!

#MLESI2025 #EconTwitter #AIResearch #MIT

For firms, taking a stand on hot-button social issues has become more than a public relations puzzle—it may be integral to developing an effective modern business strategy.

Read a new study from ‪Chicago Booth Faculty Jacob Conway:
www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

In Its Expectations for the Economy, AI Is Surprisingly Human AI, designed to mimic the appearance of human reasoning, also forms predictions about the economy in human-like ways.

Can #AI be used to predict a pricing bubble before it pops?

@chicagoboothreview.bsky.social:
www.chicagobooth.edu/review/in-it...?

The sun’s out, and so are our summer intros. ☀️ Excited to welcome this group of students from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social to MLESI 2025!

We're ready for the West Coast brainpower joining us in Chicago.

#MLESI2025 #AI #Econ #MachineLearning
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Summer 2025

Check out @chicagoboothreview.bsky.social's latest issue—here are some of our favorite #AI stories:

💻 Can a Machine-Learning Model Reason Like an Expert?
💡 Is ChatGPT Confident About Its Answer or Just Bluffing?
🧠 How AI Can Make Smarter Predictions

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/summe...

With summer off to a start, we're already looking ahead to the 2025 Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute!

Student participants hail from all across the globe for the week-long event. Meet this year's cohort from @harvard.edu!

#AI #MachineLearning

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How AI Can Make Smarter Predictions Researchers gave AI a way to evaluate and calibrate its own uncertainty.

AI can be overconfident.

So a team of researchers came up with a solution: Give AI a way to evaluate and calibrate its own uncertainty, allowing a user to decide how much to trust a prediction. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/how-a...

In Its Expectations for the Economy, AI Is Surprisingly Human AI, designed to mimic the appearance of human reasoning, also forms predictions about the economy in human-like ways.

"You need some way of actually measuring people’s beliefs or their preferences if you wanna test these behavioral stories around bubbles," says Chicago Booth’s Leland Bybee. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/in-it... #econsky #ai