Computational Competition Law and Public Policy Workshop

CLES@UCL Second Computational Competition Law and Public Policy Workshop
Organised and chaired by Ioannis Lianos (UCL)

Programme

9.30 am Welcome

9.35 - 11.15 Horizon scanning: AI tools in competition authorities and regulators.
Case study: dealing with algorithmic collusion
The aim of this session will be to discuss the use of AI by competition authorities and regulators. We also aim to have a discussion on the possible uses of AI for cartel investigations and algorithmic collusion exploring some of the initiatives undertaken so far. We will also discuss the possibility for collusion through LLMs and ways to deal with this risk.

• Massimiliano Calaresu (European Commission)
• Karen Croxson (CMA)
• Yann Guthmann (French Competition Authority)
• Vassilis Vassalos (AUEB, formerly HCC)
• Ran Shorrer with Sara Fish and Yannai Gonczarowski (Harvard Univ & Penn State Univ.), on 'Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models'

11.15 -11.25 Break

11.25 - 13.15 Computational social science and causal inference/reasoning for public policy purposes: LLMs, multi-agent AI systems and in silico law approaches, Agent-based modelling, complexity science and digital twins

• Apostolos Filippas (Fordham University) with John Horton (online) (MIT) on 'Large language models as simulated economic agents: What can we learn from homo silicus?'
• Matej Zecevic with Moritz Willig, Devendra Singh Dhami (online), and Kristian Kersting (online) (TU Darmstadt) on ‘Causal Parrots: Large Language Models May Talk Causality But Are Not Causal’
• Omar Guerrero (Turing Institute) on 'Making Causal Inferences with Agent-Based Models'
• Ioannis Lianos (UCL) on 'Legal Approaches to Causation and In Silico Law"
• Tommaso Aste (UCL) on 'Agent-based modeling and causality (statistical causality)'

13.15 -14.00 Lunch Discussion

Fees and Booking

£50 standard ticket
Public Sector / Academics / Students - free of charge - numbers limited. 

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