Week 10 Lecture - Artifical Intelligence and the Economy

Josh Hug, April 8th, 2025

Materials

CS 195 Readings

• Recommended [Ed post] Paul Krugman, Erik Brynjolfsson. How Should We Think About the Economics of AI?. Paul Krugman. 2025.
• Recommended [Ed post] Vernor Vinge. First Word. Omni. 1983.
• Recommended [Ed post] Jason Pohl. UC Berkeley Historian of Science Ponders AI's Past, Present, and Future. UC Berkeley News. 2023.
• Recommended [Ed post] Otakar G. Hubschmann. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip. The AI Underwriter. 2025.
• Optional [Ed post] Steven Kurutz. The Gen X Career Meltdown. The New York Times. 2025.
• Optional James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst. Harnessing automation for a future that works. McKinsey Global Institute. 2017.

CS H195 Readings

• Recommended [Ed post] Paul Krugman, Erik Brynjolfsson. How Should We Think About the Economics of AI?. Paul Krugman. 2025.
• Recommended [Ed post] Vernor Vinge. First Word. Omni. 1983.
• Recommended [Ed post] Jason Pohl. UC Berkeley Historian of Science Ponders AI's Past, Present, and Future. UC Berkeley News. 2023.
• Recommended [Ed post] Otakar G. Hubschmann. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip. The AI Underwriter. 2025.
• Recommended [Ed post] Steven Kurutz. The Gen X Career Meltdown. The New York Times. 2025.
• Optional James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst. Harnessing automation for a future that works. McKinsey Global Institute. 2017.