@joshgans.bsky.social
Professor at University of Toronto
@koenfucius.bsky.socialReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialWe expect higher safety standards from automated agents than from humans.
@joshgans.bsky.social argues this can be rational, effectively because, while humans can be motivated to provide costly help, driven by (anticipated) guilt if they didn’t, machines feel no guilt:
@joshgans.bsky.socialMy thoughts on OpenAI's Big Maths Day. joshuagans.substack.com/p/openai-dro...
@nber.orgReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialThe FTC argues Amazon did not declare its auction rules. This paper shows when that matters, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35841
@nber.orgReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialStudying how advertising claims direct consumers to different customer experiences, and how prices change the available evidence, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35770
@joshgans.bsky.socialAmericans saved $1.5 trillion not buying Trump steaks
@joshgans.bsky.socialThe Mathematicians are struggling, My response to the Fields Medalists' letter joshuagans.substack.com/p/the-mathem...
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@nber.orgReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialAssessing the role of AI-generated assessments of manuscripts in improving the quality of peer review, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35688
@joshgans.bsky.socialYou and your fancy Stanford theories.
@joshgans.bsky.socialThe Hugging Face incident is a 5-alarm fire. joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-worse?...
@joshgans.bsky.socialCome join our group at Rotman. Applications open. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
@nber.orgReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialRestricting frontier AI models for exclusive evaluation prior to public release changes the cybersecurity game, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35586
@joshgans.bsky.socialNot quite the SciFi scenario joshuagans.substack.com/p/not-quite-...
@joshgans.bsky.socialThe cybersecurity AI risk is far worse than we thought. joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
@nber.orgReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialStudying jobs in which workers value both producing useful output and knowing that output depends on their own contribution, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35559
@joshgans.bsky.socialI only barely keep up.
@nber.orgReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialOnce the price of passive equity stakes to the government and a firm's policy exposure are determined in equilibrium, the owners' consent reveals nothing about whether they benefit, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35518
@nber.orgReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialWhat makes AI economically valuable? AI is used by humans to make decisions. The optimal way to train or benchmark AI depends on that joint use, in a formal decision-theoretic way, from Kevin A. Bryan and @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35490
@joshgans.bsky.socialIf you win the FIFA peace prize you are allowed a mulligan
@nber.orgReposted by @joshgans.bsky.socialTrying to purify a metric to reducing gaming in markets can backfire when a metric feeds into prices but not when it feeds into rank/position, from @joshgans.bsky.social and Scott Duke Kominers www.nber.org/papers/w35363
