#AcademicRunPlaylist - 11/12/24

It was a nice fall day in Boston, and while I should have worn gloves I still had a nice run while listening to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a fantastic conversation with Wim Vandekerckhove on whistleblowing and deference to authority on the Stakeholder Podcast. There's a fascinating examination of the Milgram electrocution experiment and its variants, and the section on effectively enabling whistleblowing in organizations is a can't miss. Highly recommend https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/stakeholdermedia/id/33895872

Next was an engaging panel on competition implications of generative AI companies from an economic perspective at PLAMADISO – Platforms, Markets, and the Digital Society with Elżbieta Głowicka, Jason Potts, Paul Seabright, and William Lehr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Og0CIJeSHQ

Next was an amazing talk by Tobias Salz on sources of market power in web search at the Toulouse School of Economics. Salz presents a rigorous field experiment that changes and measures search provider usage and behavior to tease apart the effects of various features, and even includes surveys! Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=salvZFUs45E

Next was a compelling panel on the regulation of generative AI companies at Plamadiso with Anouk van der Veer, Michal Shur-Ofry, Paul Stephen Dnes, and Thibault Schrepel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VJWK2ky-us

Next was a great talk by Jill Grennan on the demographic dimensions of the innovator-inventor gap at the Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation (WEFI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQVyLv5HqVk

Next was an incredible talk by Daniel Ho on assessing the reliability of AI in legal research at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. Ho systematically evaluates both consumer and law-specific LLMs and finds ridiculously high error rates, even with the most "advanced" models. Hopefully this pours more cold water on people using LLMs in areas where the truth matters. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlQ4QdzTgg

Next was an interesting talk by Lindsey Raymond on the market effects of algorithms, with a focus on the housing market, at WEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwDKZzWAWWQ

Last was an excellent panel on the implications of using different data sources to train generative AI systems at Plamadiso with friends of the playlist Beatriz Botero Arcila, Christopher Yoo, Orly Lobel, and Robert Mahari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgOQvJaDLzA