Artificial intelligence and China's authoritarian governance

Authoritarian Governance with Public Communication ∗

Why would an authoritarian regime allow citizens to complain publicly if, as is often presumed, exchange of information among citizens invites social instability? This paper studies how an authoritarian regime allows citizens to publicly express preferences to strengthen its rule. We argue that public communication has two functions. First, it disorganizes the citizens or strengthens their disa...

Artificial Intelligence Approach Analyzing Management Ability Based on Accounting and Corporate Governance Criteria

The aim of this research is the analysis of management ability using accounting and corporate governance criteria and also artificial intelligence. The primary independent variables in this study include regulatory variables (characteristics of corporate governance and audit committee) and accounting variables (performance and risk criteria). We took advantage of Demirjian index to measure mana...

Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Artificial Intelligence

Crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk have become popular for a wide variety of human intelligence tasks; however, quality control continues to be a significant challenge. Recently, we propose TURKONTROL, a theoretical model based on POMDPs to optimize iterative, crowdsourced workflows. However, they neither describe how to learn the model parameters, nor show its effectiveness...

Territorial Intelligence and Governance

Artificial Intelligence and Collective Intelligence

The vision of artificial intelligence (AI) is often manifested through an autonomous software module (agent) in a complex and uncertain environment. The agent is capable of thinking ahead and acting for long periods of time in accordance with its goals/objectives. It is also capable of learning and refining its understanding of the world. The agent may accomplish this based on its own experienc...