This Webinar Series explores the economic dimensions of rapid AI advances and their transformative impacts on our economies and societies.

John Horton (MIT) presents "AI Agents and Markets".

This talk presented some preliminary thoughts on how agents might affect marketplaces, focusing on price discovery, preference elicitation, competition, bargaining and market design. It then discussed a new paper using some of these agentic approaches to simulate job matching in a labor market setting. The talk concluded with some thoughts on tooling and infrastructure to accelerate research in this area.