Zoe Hitzig
I am a writer and an economist, currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (on leave) and a Research Scientist at OpenAI. I received a PhD in economics from Harvard in 2023. Working Papers Contextually Private Mechanisms with Andreas Haupt R&R at American Economic Review Extended abstract at EC ‘22 [Draft: May 2025] Opaque Contracts with Andreas Haupt [Draft: January 2023] Optimal Defaults, Limited Enforcement and the Regulation of Contracts with Benjamin Niswonger [Draft: February 2023] Platform Growth is Hard: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Carpooling Platform with Abhijit Banerjee and Rema Hanna [Draft: October 2023] Published Papers A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods with Vitalik Buterin and Glen Weyl Management Science Vol. 65 (11), July 2019 [Paper] [Publisher's Version] [Marginal Revolution] [WIRED] [TED] Personhood Credentials: Artificial intelligence and the Value of Privacy-Preserving Tools to Distinguish Who is Real Onlinewith
Zoe Hitzig Credit: David Sprague Zoë Hitzig I am an economist studying the social and economic impacts of AI, and the choices we face in responding to them. Currently, I am at the Anthropic Institute . Before, I was at the Harvard Society of Fellows and OpenAI. I received a PhD in economics from Harvard in 2023. I am also a writer. I am the author of two books of poetry and a forthcoming book of nonfiction. My work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Paris Review, Wired, Artforum, Harper’s and I currently serve as poetry editor of The Drift . RESEARCH Publications Contextua
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