Artificial intelligence, firms and consumer behavior: A survey

L Abrardi, C Cambini, L Rondi - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The current advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are likely to have profound economic
implications and bring about new trade‐offs, thereby posing new challenges from a …

Foundational challenges in assuring alignment and safety of large language models

U Anwar, A Saparov, J Rando, D Paleka… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work identifies 18 foundational challenges in assuring the alignment and safety of large
language models (LLMs). These challenges are organized into three different categories …

A new sociology of humans and machines

M Tsvetkova, T Yasseri, N Pescetelli… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
From fake social media accounts and generative artificial intelligence chatbots to trading
algorithms and self-driving vehicles, robots, bots and algorithms are proliferating and …

The impact of artificial intelligence capabilities on servitization: The moderating role of absorptive capacity-A dynamic capabilities perspective

M Abou-Foul, JL Ruiz-Alba… - Journal of Business …, 2023 - Elsevier
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies has opened new opportunities
for manufacturers to maintain their technological edge and address pressing societal …

Competition in pricing algorithms

ZY Brown, A MacKay - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We document new facts about pricing technology using high-frequency data, and we
examine the implications for competition. Some online retailers employ technology that …

Artificial intelligence, algorithm design, and pricing

J Asker, C Fershtman, A Pakes - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We calculate the time path of prices generated by algorithmic pricing games that differ in
their learning protocols. Asynchronous learning occurs when the algorithm only learns about …

Autonomous algorithmic collusion: Q‐learning under sequential pricing

T Klein - The RAND Journal of Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Prices are increasingly set by algorithms. One concern is that intelligent algorithms may
learn to collude on higher prices even in the absence of the kind of coordination necessary …

Platform design when sellers use pricing algorithms

JP Johnson, A Rhodes, M Wildenbeest - Econometrica, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the ability of a platform to design its marketplace to promote competition,
improve consumer surplus, and increase its own payoff. We consider demand‐steering rules …

Protecting consumers from collusive prices due to AI

E Calvano, G Calzolari, V Denicolò, JE Harrington Jr… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The efficacy of a market system is rooted in competition. In striving to attract customers, firms
are led to charge lower prices and deliver better products and services. Nothing more …

Algorithmic collusion with imperfect monitoring

E Calvano, G Calzolari, V Denicoló… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
We show that if they are allowed enough time to complete the learning, Q-learning
algorithms can learn to collude in an environment with imperfect monitoring adapted from …