Joshua Gans

Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab

[Economic Innovation Group @InnovateEconomy]

In the American Worker Project’s latest guest essay, @joshgans explains why, instead of asking whether an entire occupation is “safe” or “at risk” of automation, we should identify which tasks within an occupation can be automated to increase productivity.

Read more: https://t.co/l2oGDCmRxx

[Cardiff Garcia @CardiffGarcia]

Delighted to feature this terrific essay by @joshgans on the nuances of thinking through AI's possible effects on employment. https://t.co/gToih3dH1H

[Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior]

A MUST READ from @joshgans on AI at Agglomerations today https://t.co/R7mcVRI0ux

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

"lexiphanic" LOL

[Tim Harford @TimHarford]

Explain it to me like I'm 10
https://t.co/QcgdbNuug1

[Karl Martin @KarlTheMartian]

It's Hollywood Mexico day in Toronto

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

I thought that when Canada had wildfires, the pollution was supposed to be sent to New York rather than Toronto.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

@GonHuertas That paper didn’t deal with the actual regulations being done these days.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

There is lots of criticism of the https://t.co/Y8htZKiDJ4 letter on AI to which I am a signatory to because of lack of specifics. You know why? As far as I know there has not been a single paper in regulatory economics on the details of regulating AI to counter potential risks.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

@AdamThierer Yeah but that's really too reduced form for specifics. The current AI regulation being pursued ad hoc has not been analysed properly.

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

This specification from @joshgans is going to dominate everything. The task of orchestrating human inputs and evaluation, alongside embodying it in an orchestration of agents, is enormous. There are surely, surely, very few pre-AI organisations that are up to it.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

@tutperson12 Yes. Absolutely.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

@abhishekn @Afinetheorem "Kevin muses on AI" Spring 2027

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

Lots of papers on whether we should stop AI or not. Lots on broad governance ideas. But literally none on who should get access to frontier models and why. This is why this letter is important. I just wish it had pointed this out more clearly.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

@chehendriksen @reach_vb @Dimillian Nope

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

TIL that Pro is available but only in Chat.

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

This line of exposition is excellent. Everyone should follow.

[Francisco Nunes @FranNunesEcon]

Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics: Every competitive equilibrium is Pareto optimal.

How did Arrow and Debreu prove it?

My new article about it:

https://t.co/IugMbqIzvu

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

There ain't no way out of this pricing mess. https://t.co/QbEl6WCHVO

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

This is actually the founding principle of All Day TA. When professors provide content, it is used to train their TA and nothing else. We don't even store it (even when some profs want us to), and we can't use it to train our own backend.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/xv6csf1SbV

[Joshua Gans @joshgans]

QJE taking https://t.co/U7gh1AypnH. to new levels. Surely they can fit on the cover!