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Policy roundtable: Making the most of AI: how to foster diffusion and address risks? Moderator: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania Fidelio Börm, Medimir Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University Bertin Martens, Bruegel Filiz Unsal, OECD Concluding remarks: Oscar Arce, ECB

Session 3: Does AI matter for monetary policy? Session chair: Wolfgang Lemke, ECB Implications of AI usage for financial stability: evidence from AI-driven investment funds identified by generative AI amid interest rate hikes Joe Ho-Yeung Wong*, Victor Pak-Ho Leung and Siru Lu, all Hong Kong Monetary Authority Discussant: Shams Pathan, Newcastle University Simulating the Survey of professional forecasters Sophia Kazinnik*, Stanford HAI Anne Lundgaard Hansen, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond John J. Horton, MIT Sloan School of Management Daniela Puzzello, Indiana University Bloomington Ali Zarifhonarvar, Indiana University Bloomington Discussant: Michael Ehrmann, ECB

Keynote speech: AI and the outlook for productivity Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College London

Session 2: Is this time different? Will AI have a significant effect on productivity? Session chair: Oscar Arce, ECB Generative AI and firm-level productivity: evidence from startup funding dynamics Dominik Asam* and David Heller, both Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Discussant: Paul E. Soto, Federal Reserve Board Generative AI and the nature of work Manuel Hoffmann*, Harvard Business School and Stanford University Sam Boysel, Harvard Business School Frank Nagle, Harvard Business School Sida Peng, Microsoft Kevin Xu, GitHub Discussant: Peter Gal, OECD

Session 1: How is AI transforming the labour market? Session chair: Luc Laeven, ECB AI, task changes in jobs, and worker reallocation Christina Gathmann*, LISER, University of Luxembourg and CEPR Felix Grimm, LISER Erwin Winkler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, IZA and LASER Discussant: Antonio Dalla Zuanna, Banca d'Italia AI adoption and the demand for managerial expertise Liudmila Alekseeva*, KU Leuven José Azar, University of Navarra and IESE Business School Mireia Giné, IESE Business School Sampsa Samila, IESE Business School Discussant: Juan F. Jimeno, Banco de España

Keynote speech: The transformative power of AI—uses and applications of a new general-purpose technology Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management