Resek 2024: AI, Media, and Society

Friday April 5, 2024

Speakers and featured papers:
Pinar Yildirim: Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences
Elliott Ash: Immigration and Social Distance: Evidence from Newspapers during the Age of Mass Migration
David Yang: AI-tocracy: Artificial Intelligence, Autocratic Power in China, and Its Global Implications


About Resek:
Robert Resek was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he worked as a computer programmer on the Illiac, one of the world’s first digital computers, and served as a research assistant performing econometric modeling. As a Bronze Tablet Scholar, he graduated in 1957. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to attend Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he earned a Master’s of Science in 1960 and PhD in 1961, both in economics.
The Resek Conference is made possible by the generous support of Bob and Lois Resek.