The AI Economist - Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies

Explore a groundbreaking 35-minute video analysis of "The AI Economist" paper, which investigates the use of AI-driven tax policies to improve equality and productivity. Delve into a unique framework where reinforcement learning agents maximize wealth in a simulated economy while an AI government optimizes social welfare through taxation. Examine the paper's methodology, including the two-level deep reinforcement learning approach and the economic simulation environment. Discover how AI-derived tax policies outperform baseline systems, including the Saez tax framework, by 16% in balancing equality and productivity. Learn about emergent features such as higher top tax rates and increased subsidies for low incomes, as well as the AI's effectiveness against tax-gaming strategies. Finally, understand the implications of applying these AI-driven policies in experiments with human participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Introduction
Paper Overview
Social Welfare
Free Market Games
Tax Strategies
Double Periodic Game
Architecture
Tax brackets
Human experiments