Transform X 2022

John List is a Professor at the University of Chicago and the Chief Economist at Walmart; he formerly served as Chief Economist at Lyft and Uber. Economists look at machine learning through a different lens. They identify causal effects, detect heterogeneity, and generally want to improve the bottom line and make the world better. List will take you through his experiences with machine learning and share the economics of apologies at Uber, the value of time at Lyft, and how the voltage effect impacts machine learning at scale. The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale is List’s latest best-selling book. To obtain data for the field experiments he pioneered in the 1990s, List has used several different markets, including charitable fundraising activities, the sports trading card industry, the ride-share industry, and the education sector, to highlight a few. This collective research has led to collaborative work with several schools, charities, and businesses, including Humana, United Airlines, Sears, General Motors, and many others. List’s research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several published textbooks. He co-authored the international best seller, The Why Axis, in 2013. He is a current editor of The Journal of Political Economy.

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Looking at AI Through the Lens of a Chief Economist (Walmart, Uber, Lyft)

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