| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29466 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29466 |
| AI-tocracy | |
| Martin Beraja; Andrew Kao; David Y. Yang; Noam Yuchtman | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-11-08 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Can frontier innovation be sustained under autocracy? We argue that innovation and autocracy can be mutually reinforcing when: (i) the new technology bolsters the autocrat’s power; and (ii) the autocrat’s demand for the technology stimulates further innovation in applications beyond those benefiting it directly. We test for such a mutually reinforcing relationship in the context of facial recognition AI in China. To do so, we gather comprehensive data on AI firms and government procurement contracts, as well as on social unrest across China during the last decade. We first show that autocrats benefit from AI: local unrest leads to greater government procurement of facial recognition AI, and increased AI procurement suppresses subsequent unrest. We then show that AI innovation benefits from autocrats’ suppression of unrest: the contracted AI firms innovate more both for the government and commercial markets. Taken together, these results suggest the possibility of sustained AI innovation under the Chinese regime: AI innovation entrenches the regime, and the regime’s investment in AI for political control stimulates further frontier innovation. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Industrial Organization ; Regulatory Economics ; Industry Studies ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Growth and Productivity ; Other ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29466 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587140 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Martin Beraja,Andrew Kao,David Y. Yang,et al. AI-tocracy. 2021. |
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