AI is moving from autocomplete to autopilo t. These systems are no longer just suggesting courses of action\; they're acting on our behalf\, trading in markets\, making decisions\, and pursuing goals. Soon\, millions of AI agents will be transacting faster than any hu man can track\, and we may find ourselves creating as much for machine audi ences as human ones. Join us for a conversation with Tyler Cowen\, a George Mason economist and prolific author\, moderated by Professor Jonathan Zitt rain\, as we wrestle with far-reaching topics\, such as what autonomous AI means for markets\, creativity\, and our conception of consciousness.
Tyler Cowen is currently a professor of economics at George Mason University. He has edited the volume Public G oods and Market Failures\, and has written Explorations in the New Monetary Economics with Randall Kroszner. His most recent book\, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream was published January 2017. Tyler writes a column for Bloomberg View and co ntributes daily to The MarginalRevolution blog.
Jonathan Zitt rain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, Professor of Com puter Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, D irector of the Harvard Law School Library\, and Co-Founder of the Berkman K lein Center for Internet & Society.
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