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Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy

May 2-3, 2025: The Consequences of AI use on Society and Policy

Laurence Ales, Burton Hollifield, Ali Shourideh, Ariel Zetlin-Jones

The conference will be held at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University with a focus on the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as a technology is likely to be felt in multiple aspects of society. In this conference, our goal is to provide research to inform policy makers on where this technology may have effects on the economy.

Keynote Panel: A Policy Agenda for AI

Editors:

George Alessandria (University of Rochester)
Venky Venkateswaran (New York University)
Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie Mellon University)

Watch the Policy Agenda for AI Panel Livestream

The livestream will be available starting a few minutes before the event. The discussion will start promptly at 5 p.m.

The discussion will also include how governments should set priorities for regulating AI use in society.

Hosted by Laurence Ales, Senior Associate Dean for Education.

Panelists include Fabio M. Natalucci, CEO of the Andersen Institute and former Deputy Director at the IMF; Elad Roisman, former Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the SEC; and Chester Spatt, Tepper School professor and former Chief Economist of the SEC.

About the CRNYU Conferences

The CRNYU conferences seek to stimulate policy relevance and empirical research in economic science, to encourage interchange of scientific ideas among analysts with different approaches, and to generate greater understanding by academic economists of practitioners' environments.

Each conference is organized around a particular theme or topic with papers prepared by leading scholars with expertise in the area. Participants are united by their interest in the issues discussed and by their belief that analysis, evidence, and informed discussion have lasting effects on the public and its institutions. The conference receives financial support from the National Science Foundation and from its host institutions

Conference Contribution Milestones

Robert Lucas’s seminal paper on the econometric evaluation of policy appeared in the first issue of the conference.

R.E. Lucas (1976). ''Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique”. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1:19-46.

John Taylor’s paper in 1993 introduced the Taylor Rule and transformed discussion and analysis of monetary policy.

John Taylor (1993). ''Discretion versus policy rules in practice’’. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 39:195-214.

Conference History

The Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy was initiated in the early 1970s through the efforts of the Bradley Policy Research Center at the William E. Simon School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester and the Center for the Study of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Under the leadership of the late Allan Meltzer (Carnegie Mellon University) and the late Karl Brunner (University of Rochester), the conference developed into a semi-annual event.

Subsequently, New York University's Stern School of Business joined Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business and the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business as a host institution.

Today, the conference takes place annually in the spring of each year and rotates between each host institution.