Left Leaning Models: AI Assumptions on Economic Policy
Maxim Chupilkin
AI如何看待经济政策? 虽然在经济学中使用大型语言模型(LLM)呈指数级增长,但他们在经济问题上的假设仍然是一个黑匣子。 本文使用连体实验来梳理影响LLM对经济政策评估的主要因素。 它发现LLM对失业,不平等,金融稳定和环境危害最敏感,对经济增长,通货膨胀和政府债务等传统宏观经济问题不那么敏感。 结果在跨场景和跨模型之间非常一致。
How does AI think about economic policy? While the use of large language models (LLMs) in economics is growing exponentially, their assumptions on economic issues remain a black box. This paper uses a conjoint experiment to tease out the main factors influencing LLMs' evaluation of economic policy. It finds that LLMs are most sensitive to unemployment, inequality, financial stability, and environmental harm and less sensitive to traditional macroeconomic concerns such as economic growth, inflati...