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Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a newly released research paper ...

In September 2017, the National Bureau of Economic Research held its first conference on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence in Toronto. The purpose of the conference and associated volume is to ...

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