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ACADEMIC ARTICLE SUMMARY

Regulating the Risks of AI

Article Published Year: 2023
Summary:

Artificial intelligence-based systems (AI) present risks that might be hard to predict or quantity. Policymakers in Europe and the United States have developed proposals to regulate AI risks.

Written By:

Margot Kaminski

Margot KaminskiTAP Scholar
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Privacy
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Recap of the Economics of Robots Conference

Publication Date: May 26, 2023
NYU Professor Rob Seamans and Michael Impink provide key takeaways from this year’s Economics of Robots Conference. Topics discussed include trends on robot adoption, generative AI, and impact of robots on human labor.
Written By

Rob Seamans

Rob SeamansTAP Scholar
TAP Guest Blogger
  • Impact of Tech on Society
  • Future of Work
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
ACADEMIC ARTICLE SUMMARY

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

Article Published Year: 2022
Summary:

A survey of thousands of firms helps economists understand the spread of advanced technologies such as robotics. Advanced technologies are often used for automation, and generally improves productivity.

Written By:

Daron Acemoglu

Daron AcemogluTAP Scholar

Cathy Buffington

Cathy Buffington

David N. Beede

David N. Beede

Emin Dinlersoz

Emin Dinlersoz

Eric E. Childress

Eric E. Childress

Gary W. Anderson

Gary W. Anderson

John C. Haltiwanger

John C. Haltiwanger

Lucia S. Foster

Lucia S. Foster

Nathan Goldschlag

Nathan Goldschlag

Nikolas Zolas

Nikolas Zolas

 Pascual Restrepo

Pascual Restrepo

Zachary Kroff

Zachary Kroff
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Innovation and Economic Impact
  • Networks and Infrastructure
  • Cloud Computing
In-person Event

Bridging the Divide: Answering Internet Policy Questions with Cutting-Edge Network Measurement Algorithms, Datasets, and Platforms

Event Date: June 20 – 21, 2023
Location:

Goldberg Room297 Law BuildingBerkeley, CA

Event Details:

Policymakers and researchers across disciplines are working to address questions regarding the state of internet access and digital equity. While regulators might use existing datasets to answer these policy questions, these datasets present challenges and complications that often lead to misleading conclusions. Gaps and errors in datasets will yield poor funding decisions, with effects that are likely to be felt especially severely in historically or intentionally underserved areas. There exists, in general, a gap between the data policymakers need and the data currently available.

To bridge the divide between researchers and policymakers working to close the digital divide, this workshop aims to bring together experts from both domains. The goal is to catalyze new ideas, collaborations, and solutions to counter internet inequity within the US and beyond.

Link to Event Website

Hosted bythe Berkeley Center For Law & Technology

  • Internet
  • Networks and Infrastructure
  • Broadband and Wireless Technologies
  • Tech’s Impact on Economic Equity

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Erik Brynjolfsson: Why Using AI to Augment Human Capabilities Has More Value Than Automation"

Stanford Professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses the perils of focusing AI development on systems that outmatch human capabilities as opposed to systems that complement humans. 

Recent Blog Posts

BLOG POST

Recap of the Economics of Robots Conference

Publication Date: May 26, 2023
NYU Professor Rob Seamans and Michael Impink provide key takeaways from this year’s Economics of Robots Conference. Topics discussed include trends on robot adoption, generative AI, and impact of robots on human labor.
Written By

Rob Seamans

Rob SeamansTAP Scholar
TAP Guest Blogger
  • Impact of Tech on Society
  • Future of Work
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
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Barbara van Schewick Discusses Net Neutrality and the Future of the Internet

Publication Date: May 10, 2023
Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick, an expert on net neutrality, talks about how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) want control over what we do online and how they want to charge more for data we are already paying for.
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TAP Staff Blogger
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Barbara van Schewick

Barbara van SchewickTAP Scholar
  • Networks and Infrastructure
  • Net Neutrality
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From the First Amendment to Section 230, Eric Goldman Explains the Online Speech Law in the U.S.

Publication Date: April 19, 2023
Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman’s recent article, “The United States’ Approach to 'Platform' Regulation” provides an overview of online speech law in the U.S.
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Eric Goldman

Eric GoldmanTAP Scholar
  • Platforms and Platform Regulation
  • Content Moderation/Section 230
  • Freedom of Speech
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Recent Academic Article Summary

ACADEMIC ARTICLE SUMMARY

How Will Language Modelers like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries

Article Published Year: 2023
Written By:

Edward Felten

Edward FeltenTAP Scholar

Rob Seamans

Rob SeamansTAP Scholar
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
  • Impact of Tech on Society
  • Future of Work
Summary

A method that assesses which occupations will be most affected by artificial intelligence (AI) predicts that advances such as ChatGPT will have significant effects in education and financial services.

Policy Relevance

Language modeling advances will significantly affect occupations such as teaching and telemarketing.

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Events

In-person Event

Bridging the Divide: Answering Internet Policy Questions with Cutting-Edge Network Measurement Algorithms, Datasets, and Platforms

Event Date: June 20 – 21, 2023
Location:

Goldberg Room297 Law BuildingBerkeley, CA

Event Details:

Policymakers and researchers across disciplines are working to address questions regarding the state of internet access and digital equity. While regulators might use existing datasets to answer these policy questions, these datasets present challenges and complications that often lead to misleading conclusions. Gaps and errors in datasets will yield poor funding decisions, with effects that are likely to be felt especially severely in historically or intentionally underserved areas. There exists, in general, a gap between the data policymakers need and the data currently available.

To bridge the divide between researchers and policymakers working to close the digital divide, this workshop aims to bring together experts from both domains. The goal is to catalyze new ideas, collaborations, and solutions to counter internet inequity within the US and beyond.

Link to Event Website

Hosted bythe Berkeley Center For Law & Technology

  • Internet
  • Networks and Infrastructure
  • Broadband and Wireless Technologies
  • Tech’s Impact on Economic Equity
In-person Event

Governance in Online Speech Leadership Series

Event Date: June 26 – 28, 2023
Location:

Yale Law SchoolNew Haven, CT

Event Details:

The Governance in Online Speech Leadership Series is an interdisciplinary 3-day workshop that aims to connect those currently working at speech platforms in trust & safety, content moderation, content policy, integrity, and governance with the generation of people in industry, civil society, and academia who pioneered these fields as lawyers, policy-makers, project managers, engineers, stakeholders, and scholars.

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Hosted bythe Berkman Klein Center

  • Networks and Infrastructure
  • Internet
  • Media and Content
In-person Event

2023 Aspen Forum

Event Date: August 20 – 22, 2023
Location:

St. Regis Aspen ResortAspen, CO

Event Details:

TPI Aspen brings together experts across business, industry, and government to discuss how tech policy and regulation impact daily life. Through panel discussions and fireside chats, participants discuss experiences with tech policy—what worked, what did not, what we still need to understand, and how policy can make technology work for everyone. Several TAP scholars will participate.

Link to Event Website

Hosted bythe Technology Policy Institute

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