2026 AI and Economics Summer Conference
August 11, 2026
The Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at Chicago Booth is hosting the third AI and Economics Summer Conference (formerly known as MLESC) on Tuesday, August 11 at the University of Chicago. The conference is organized by Sanjog Misra (Chicago Booth), Suproteem Sarkar (Chicago Booth), Annie Liang (Northwestern), and Sarah Cen (Carnegie Mellon).
The AIE Summer Conference brings together researchers working at the intersection of AI and economics. We are looking for submissions on research studying how AI methods (e.g., LLMs, agents, alignment with human feedback, machine vision, text analysis) may be used to tackle existing questions in forecasting, experimental design, fairness and bias, and econometric theory, as well as open new directions in fields like behavioral economics, applied microeconomics, development, macroeconomics, and finance. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.
Submission of full drafts is encouraged, but extended abstracts of manuscripts that will be available by the time of the conference are possible. Please contact lauren.doan@chicagobooth.edu if you have any questions.