AI and the Economy Initiative

Connecting policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to advance collaboration at the intersection of AI and economics @Penn_State

[AI and the Economy Initiative @PennStateAIEcon]

Huge thanks to all speakers, nearly 200 participants, organizers (Chloe Tergiman, @ballesterogh, @hadi_hoss, @RanShorrer), and a wonderful staff for making this happen! The program and papers are at https://t.co/EwHGKFcIbP

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[AI and the Economy Initiative @PennStateAIEcon]

Closing the second meeting of the AI and the Economy Initiative. Here is a thread with the highlights @PSULiberalArts @PennStateEcon @SmealCollege @ISTatPENNSTATE @PennStateCSRAI

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[AI and the Economy Initiative @PennStateAIEcon]

@RanShorrer closed the workshop with experimental evidence on autonomous algorithmic collusion with  LLM pricing agents.

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[Hadi Hosseini @hadi_hoss]

We are excited to announce the 2nd workshop on AI and the Economy @penn_state.

Date: May 18–19, 2026,
Location: University Park.
The full program is available in https://t.co/4ot6IQy1D6

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[AI and the Economy Initiative @PennStateAIEcon]

We're back! The 2nd edition of the Penn State AI Workshop is coming in two weeks

Program here: https://t.co/e2GcSSv9Kc

Speakers include @LindseyRRaymond @brian_jabarian @IoannisLianos @mehrdadmahdavi @Fotis_Sot @JohnConlon7 @erkutozbay Andrew Caplin, Nathan Palmer, Raphael Raux

[AI and the Economy Initiative @PennStateAIEcon]

@JeremyNguyenPhD You can access the working papers on our website. Check the program for links to all papers https://t.co/e2GcSSv9Kc

[AI and the Economy Initiative @PennStateAIEcon]

Closing the inaugural meeting of @PennStateAIEcon with exciting work on AI and the economy

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[AI and the Economy Initiative @PennStateAIEcon]

Huge thanks to all speakers, participants, and our wonderful staff at @penn_state for making this happen.

See you in May for the next edition! Details coming soon

[AI and the Economy Initiative @PennStateAIEcon]

@sarafish_ discussed her work (w/ Shephard, Li, @YannaiGonch, and @RanShorrer) on how LLMs behave in economic environments. Using benchmarks and litmus tests, her work measures how models learn from context and make choices under conflicting objectives.

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