AI systems are breaking an internet that was designed at human-scale — by making it cheaper than ever to coordinate, transact, and generate voice, video, and text that are increasingly indistinguishable from human activity. We’re already beset w
Walk through a bazaar as a tourist, and you’ll witness a spectacle: people buzzing everywhere, gawking at merchandise, comparing wares, sampling items, haggling with every vendor, exchanging coins. It looks like one-off commerce — each intera
In this talk, Tim Roughgarden(head of research at a16z crypto), Scott Kominers(research partner), and Pranav Garimidi(research analyst) discuss incentives, market design and mechanism design within the infrastructure and application layers.