Google Chief Economist Weighs Bots vs Tots

Google Chief Economist Weighs Bots vs Tots

Google Chief Economist Weighs Bots vs Tots By Robert Bernstein

"Google Chief Economist" is a title that gets attention when Hal Varian speaks. He was a keynote speaker at a recent UCSB conference "Mind and Machine Intelligence".

The original title of his talk was "Automation vs Procreation". But he shortened this to "Bots and Tots". Here are my photos from his talk and here he has kindly made his slides available to the public.Varian explained that he is a theorist. The basic question at hand is about supply and demand for labor. Fewer children in recent years in the US […]

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