AI in Education
A Decentralized Education System Risks Slowing the Adoption of GenAI to the Harm of Students
Eli Orbach examines how the United States’s decentralized education system impedes the diffusion and adoption of generative artificial intelligence in K-12 schools. Slow and uneven diffusion will exacerbate current socioeconomic inequalities, harm students’ future work prospects, and impede macroeconomic growth and productivity.
Do Firms Use Connections to the President To Avoid Antitrust Scrutiny?
In new research, Claire Liu and Jared Stanfield examine how relationships between corporate leaders and the United States president enable firms to capture regulation and avoid antitrust scrutiny.
Can Education Survive AI?
Stigler Center Assistant Director Matt Lucky reviews Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan’s recent book, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing). The book presents an optimistic vision for the educational and pedagogical role of AI-assisted chatbots as personal tutors and teaching assistants. Khan discusses his book with Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales on this week’s Capitalisn’t episode, which you can listen to here.
