I attended recently an excellent NBER workshop at Stanford on the economics of transformative AI. It’s always interesting to hear what books/cultural references people cite in addition to the usual econ papers, and it was an unusually wide range this time – reflecting both the interdisciplinary crowd and the breadth of the issues. Here they are.
Books:
Deep Thinking by Gary Kasparov
Automation and Utopia by John Danaher
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Philosophical Writings by Charles Sanders Peirce
The Limits of Organization by Kenneth Arrow
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Movies:
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
I *loved* Perfect Days. There’s only one of the books I haven’t read (Danaher) although I don’t claim to have got to grips at all with Peirce – on his work, I found The Metaphysical Club very informative. But participants also cited papers from computer science and sociology that I feel the need to read. Sign of a good workshop – a lot of brain space opened up.