#AcademicRunPlaylist - 4/18/24

It'll be a long day of travel over to Japan, but at least yesterday I was able to listen to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was the second day of the Peterson Institute for International Economics Rethinking Economic Policy conference. I particularly liked the panel on policy tools with Kaushik Basu, Brian Kovak, Célestin Monga, and Joseph Stiglitz, as well as the panel on the return of industrial policy led by Ricardo Hausmann with Emily Blanchard, Ann E. Harrison, and Nathan Lane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Wq5SNzNLE

Next was an interesting talk by Hancheng Cao on analyzing multitasking behavior during remote meetings at the SONIC Research Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOMC82MtOUM

Next was an amazing talk by Elizabeth Stokoe on the degree to which "conversational" technologies are actually conversational at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Given the parrots on the opening slide you know where Stokoe is going, and she brings some absolutely devastating examples on the limitations of these technologies. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiSSPiMjCoU

Next was a great talk by Yaxing Yao on privacy-empowering mechanisms in a hyper connected world at the Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HFa4tQnFY

Next was an amazing talk by Sauvik Das on privacy risks from AI at CMU. Das' "privacy through design" concept here was very intriguing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVAp193Ig8

Last was a compelling talk by Thorsten Pachur on social sampling at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Pachur presents a nice model of social sample decision heuristics, showing that it seems like many people do in fact rely on this heuristic through a number of experiments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrviTiJLoqE