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Really proud to have co-organised our Pillars_Horizon2020 SPRU Digital Catapult policy workshop. 5 December London. Pls register to attend. Luiss Guido Carli CITP

It's a short week, but not short on news. Here's what's going on. 1/n 🧵

The Lab is hiring! Check out our postdoctoral openings in three research areas: 1. Human-AI Interaction Systems and Civil Discourse 2. Measuring the Digital Economy 3. AI and the Economics of Aging Populations Apply now 👇 digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/careers-and-op…

📣 I'm hiring a postdoc with Erik Brynjolfsson to work on Measuring the Digital Economy. Check out the details below and please circulate within your networks! Stanford Digital Economy Lab Stanford HAI Stanford University

One month to go! Don't forget to submit papers for the ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2024 by 15 Jan 2024. Details on themes and how to submit visit tinyurl.com/56cbdcpj The conference will be hosted by The Productivity Institute at Alliance MBS on 15-17 May 2024.

We are hiring a postdoc to work on policy x foundation models! stanford.io/4aqP7jb Come work with us! We do rigorous and influential work as a small team with big impact! Advisers: Percy Liang + Dan Ho Appointments: Center for Research on Foundation Models, Stanford RegLab, Stanford HAI

More info on licensing deals between OpenAI and news companies to access their data. “OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year” theverge.com/2024/1/4/24025…

Remember BloombergGPT, which was a specially trained finance LLM that made a bunch of firms decide to train their own models? You may not have seen that GPT-4 8k, without specialized finance training or special tools, beat it on almost all finance tasks. arxiv.org/pdf/2305.05862…

Whenever a global economic transformation takes place, a single city usually drives it forward. Today that city is San Francisco. How is this happening somewhere supposedly falling apart? econ.st/49ePxIw Photo: Getty Images

The future of AI is human-centered: "When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever" nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opi…

Technologists often ask, “How can we replace humans doing existing tasks?” But they should ask, “What entirely new thing can we now do that we’ve never done before?” From my piece for the American Enterprise Institute "Beyond the Turing Test: Harnessing AI to Create Widely Shared Prosperity."

Did you know you were being paid for your data? A new @Brookings paper by Isaac Baley and Laura Veldkamp explains the idea of “data barter” whereby consumers exchange data in return for use of digital goods. A short thread → brookings.edu/articles/the-p…

Check out this wide-ranging interview with the brilliant Alex Pentland. Sandy, who joined the Lab this spring as a center fellow, talks about AI, building a better digital ecosystem, and a new project called the Digitalist Papers. hai.stanford.edu/news/digital-e…

I’m incredibly excited that Alex Pentland has decided to join the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He’s a remarkably innovative researcher and an equally nice guy. Welcome, Sandy!

In "Democratizing Statistics," David Levine (Haas School of Business), David Nguyen, and José Ramón Enríquez discuss the benefits and risks of making LLMs accessible to everyone. Watch our conversation with the authors: youtu.be/HN4BQe-tc-c?si…

It’s becoming more and more important to compare how the welfare from the consumption of digital goods compares to the welfare consumers get from traditional goods. Interesting work from ESCoE Research Associate David Nguyen on this topic. #EconStats2025