Convenings

A one-day invite-only working session at Microsoft Research New York bringing together AI experts, market-design economists, policymakers, software engineers, product leaders, and artist organizations. Working groups specified tangible mechanisms to fill in missing markets and align incentives across the pre-training, post-training, and inference (grounding) stages of AI.

Led by O'Reilly Media and co-organized with the AI Disclosures Project at Lighthaven, Berkeley. Roughly 180 developers, product leaders, researchers, policymakers, and writers showed up with a blank session grid and built the weekend together. Our slice of it followed the thread of market design and the missing mechanisms of the AI economy — and includes a featured lightning talk from Ilan Strauss on where intelligence does reside.

Hosted and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation at its Bellagio Center in Italy, this convening brought together 20 leading experts working across AI product development, economics, standards-setting, policy, and research to explore how to design market structures that are sustainable and allow for broad participation in value creation and distribution.