The Program

Welcome dinner in Paris (by invitation only)

Coffee and welcome

by Thomas Åstebro and Carlos Serrano, HEC Paris

Keynote

Theory-driven, Data-driven, and AI-driven Innovations

Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi University)

Algorithmic Management in Scientific Research

by Maximilian Koehler (ESMT Berlin) and Henry Sauermann* (ESMT Berlin)

Discussant: Chiara Franzoni (Politecnico di Milano)

Machine Predictions and Causal Explanations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By Xi Kang (Vanderbilt University) and Hyunjin Kim* (INSEAD)

Discussant: Arnaldo Camuffo (Bocconi University)

The Crowdless Future? How Generative AI is Shaping the Future of Human Crowdsourcing

By Leonard Boussioux (University of Washington and MIT), Jacqueline N. Lane* (Harvard Business School), Miaomiao Zhang (Harvard Business School), Vladimir Jacimovic (Harvard Business School), and Karim R. Lakhani (Harvard Business School)

Discussant: Ammon Salter (Warwick Business School)

Keynote

Pause Giant AI Experiments? An economic interpretation

Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models

By Tyna Eloundou (OpenAI), Sam Manning (OpenAI and OpenResearch), Pamela Mishkin* (OpenAI), and Daniel Rock (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Mireia Gine (IESE)

Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology

By Nikhil Agarwal* (MIT), Alex Moehring (MIT Sloan), Pranav Rajpurkar (Harvard Medical School), and Tobias Salz (MIT)

Discussant: Kevin Bryan (University of Toronto, Rotman)

Will It be Cost-Effective to Automate Human Tasks with AI? Evidence from Computer Vision

By Maja S. Svanberg (MIT), Wensu Li (MIT), Martin Fleming (The Productivity Institute), Brian C. Goehring (IBM Institute for Business Value), and Neil C. Thompson* (MIT)

Discussant: Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris)

Roundtable with industry experts

Recent developments in AI and their implications for entrepreneurship, labor, and the organization of economic activity

Participants: 

• Sunny Qian Chen (Global Marketing Director, United Robotics Group)

• Benedikt Fischer (Strategist and UX Researcher, Waymo)

• Dr. Lobna Karoui (President, AI Exponential Thinker)

• Andrea Pignataro (Founder and CEO, ION)

Moderator: Peter Fischer (HEC Paris)

Closing remarks and end of the workshop

Bus leaving from Best Western hotel to dinner venue

Main dinner near Versailles (by invitation only)

Bus returns from dinner veneu to Best Western hotel