Plausibly Exogenous [1782] - AI (12/19/2024)

LHS Variable
Demand for human translators

RHS Variable
Artificial intelligence (AI)

Source of Exogenous Variation
Google’s introduction of neural network-based translation (GNNT) in 2016-2017 as a natural experiment

- Yilmaz, Naumovska, and Aggarwal (2024), “AI-Driven Labor Substitution: Evidence from Google Translate and ChatGPT”