I would love to see more work on AI as advisor to humans, rather than AI just doing work.

This controlled study in Kenya found top small business entrepreneurs got a stunning 15% boost in profits when given an AI mentor, but low performers struggled with mentorship & did worse.

I think this is a magnificent study. And there's more to this space than advisor/worker, imo. I think there's at least a proactive v reactive distinction - right now ChatGPT is reactive only. Devin is proactive. Differences could be stark. Or not!

Boomtown gonna boomtown

'How many times do you turn 35? 11?'

(It's my birthday)

I made a small investment in an Oakland business last week. Within a couple weeks of opening their doors, they’ve already been broken into overnight and incurred thousands of dollars of damages. This is the current reality of running a small business in Oakland. It sucks.

The UN Secretary-General's Tech Envoy is coming to Cal next week to discuss the UN's ongoing work on AI governance. I'll be hosting the event, which includes a moderated expert panel.

The event is in-person, but there's also a livestream. More info here: eventbrite.com/e/ai-governanc…

Excited to share: the 2024 Workshop on Platform Analytics is available on YouTube. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Don't thumbs-up all of these videos, it would promote good scholarship into the algorithm

And don't like/rt this for the same effect

every flag becomes a red flag when it's part of a twitter bio

🚨New Paper! Super proud of David Holtz and our coauthors Felipe Lobel, Ruben Lobel and Inessa for publishing this great work from David's Thesis: 'Reducing Interference Bias in Online Marketplace Experiments Using Cluster Randomization' in INFORMS Management Science…

🚨 RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION AT MICROSOFT RESEARCH NYC 🚨

Ideal for those who wish to go to PhD programs in Computer Science or Computational Social Science

microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Strong front-end and R programming skills required

A nice write up of our research by the Haas School of Business newsroom

I told a grad-student co-author 'try to imagine me as the guy from 'Memento' who can't remember anything & needs clues to pick-up the thread on projects' and they said 'I believe you, because you already used that memento analogy'