Avi Goldfarb

2 months ago | nber.org | Ajay Agrawal |Joshua Gans |Avi Goldfarb |Catherine Tucker

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Mar 26, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Avi Goldfarb

How do we understand artificial intelligence (AI) technology as economists? To discuss this, we begin with the internet. A pivotal year for the internet was 1995, when the last aspects of the public internet, the NSFNET in the US, was privatized (Greenstein 2015). It was the year that Bill Gates wrote his “internet tidal wave” email, saying that Microsoft would focus on enabling the benefits of the internet to accrue to consumers and businesses.