AI Economist
completedSalesforce Research reinforcement learning framework that simultaneously optimizes tax policy while agents learn economic behavior. Published in Science Advances (2022). Showed RL-designed tax policies improved equality-productivity tradeoffs over US tax schedules.
Organizations
1| RadicalxChange Foundation | 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing radical social technologies for property, voting, deliberation, data sovereignty, and value exchange. Founded by Glen Weyl in 2018. Closely associated with quadratic voting, quadratic funding, and soulbound tokens through founder Glen Weyl's research collaborations (with Buterin, Posner, Hitzig, Ohlhaver). Collaborates with Gitcoin, governments, and academic institutions. |
People
1| Stephan Zheng | Former lead of the AI Economist project at Salesforce Research; now Founder and CEO of Asari AI. Used deep multi-agent RL to design tax policies outperforming human-designed policies on equality-productivity tradeoffs. Published in Science Advances (2022). |
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