John McHale
Established Professor and Head of Economics, University of Galway
Signed the letter · Academia · Ireland
Established Professor and Head of Economics at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway, and a former Executive Dean of Business and Economics there. Holds PhD and AM degrees from Harvard University. Co-author of 'Finding Needles in Haystacks: Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth' and 'Enhancing Worker Productivity Without Automating Tasks: A Different Approach to AI and the Task-Based Model'. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.
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11 works in the co-authorship map · 911 citations across them
Sources
- John McHale - University of Galway Research (Established Professor and Head of Economics)
- Professor John McHale - University of Galway (former Executive Dean; PhD and AM, Harvard)
- Finding Needles in Haystacks: Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth
- Enhancing Worker Productivity Without Automating Tasks: A Different Approach to AI and the Task-Based Model
- “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source
In the network
2 co-authors on the map · PageRank #262 of 400 · bridge #221 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Economics of prediction and innovation.
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Documented positions
Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? leans agree
Co-authored growth model shows that AI improving prediction of promising knowledge combinations could raise discovery rates and economic growth; a later co-authored model studies AI as a worker-augmenting tool raising productivity. Both are conditional theoretical results.
Evidence
Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Will AI widen inequality? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Should governments act on AI now? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
How fast will the impact arrive? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Selected work
- Finding Needles in Haystacks: Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth
- Enhancing Worker Productivity Without Automating Tasks: A Different Approach to AI and the Task-Based Model
Writes with
Ajay Agrawal (5), Alexander Oettl (4)
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