79th Economic Policy Panel Videos
Videos
The spring 2024 Economic Policy Panel hybrid meeting took place in Stockholm, hosted and supported by the National Bank of Belgium on 4 and 5 April. The studies on agenda focused on Artificial Intelligence and the Economy.
Watch the live stream of the first day’s sessions
Watch the live stream of the second day’s sessions
The invited policy session of the 79th Economic Policy panel meeting featured Daron Acemoglu of MIT presenting new analysis of claims about the supposedly large macroeconomic implications of advances in generative artificial intelligence. Using a task-based approach to assessing AI’s effects on productivity, his study concludes that the impact on GDP is likely to be modest.
Watch a livestream of of the invited policy session.
Podcasts
VoxTalks Economics recorded at the 79th Economic Policy Panel Meeting
How quickly should we adopt AI?
In the second of our podcasts recorded at the 79th EP Panel, Tim Phillips asks Joshua Gans of the University of Toronto what might happen if we pauseed AI adoption, and whether we should instead accelerate adoption of AI so that we can more quickly learn about its benefits and harms, and design better regulation as a result. Listen to the podcast and read more about Gans’ paper below.
