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We brought together 24 practitioners from 17 organizations to talk about a success in their practice they believed others could emulate or a challenge they were facing & wanted to brainstorm with others. We summarize the insights from 2 breakout discussions: Governance/Accountability & Incentives.

TL;DR: The AI Economist, a reinforcement learning (RL) system, learns dynamic tax policies that optimize equality along with productivity in simulated economies, outperforming alternative tax systems. We have now expanded this research, which is being published in the interdisciplinary scientific journal Science Advances. Humans or AI: Which Can Design