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When AI Agents Compete for Jobs: Strategic Capabilities and Economic Dynamics of AI Labour Markets
Christopher Chiu, Simpson Zhang, Mihaela van der Schaar
Emerging agentic marketplaces provide the economic infrastructure for matching and coordinating the large amounts of AI agents used in agentic swarms. Unlike human workers, AI agen…
Agents Require Metacognitive and Strategic Reasoning to Succeed in the Coming Labor Markets
Simpson Zhang, Tennison Liu, Mihaela van der Schaar
Current labor markets are strongly affected by the economic forces of adverse selection, moral hazard, and reputation, each of which arises due to …
The user base dynamics of websites
Kartik Ahuja, Simpson Zhang, Mihaela van der Schaar
In this work we study for the first time the interaction between marketing and network effects. We build a model in which the online firm starts with an initial user base and contr…
From Acquaintances to Friends: Homophily and Learning in Networks
Mihaela van der Schaar, Simpson Zhang
This paper considers the evolution of a network in a discrete time, stochastic setting in which agents learn about each other through repeated interactions and maintain/break links…
Reputational Learning and Network Dynamics
Simpson Zhang, Mihaela van der Schaar
In many real world networks agents are initially unsure of each other's qualities and must learn about each other over time via repeated interactions. This paper is the first to pr…
Towards a Theory of Societal Co-Evolution: Individualism versus Collectivism
Kartik Ahuja, Simpson Zhang, Mihaela van der Schaar
Substantial empirical research has shown that the level of individualism vs. collectivism is one of the most critical and important determinants of societal traits, such as economi…
Distributed Online Learning in Social Recommender Systems
Cem Tekin, Simpson Zhang, Mihaela van der Schaar
In this paper, we consider decentralized sequential decision making in distributed online recommender systems, where items are recommended to users based on their search query as w…