Beraja, Martin; Kao, Andrew; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Can frontier innovation be sustained under autocracy? We argue that innovation and autocracy can be mutually … relationship in the context of facial recognition AI in China. To do so, we gather comprehensive data on AI firms and government … stimulates further innovation in applications beyond those benefiting it directly. We test for such a mutually reinforcing …