Cornell University will host a conference bringing together the sharpest minds across economics and artificial intelligence on June 16 and 17.

The 2026 Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontier: Economics and AI+Machine Learning Meeting (ESIF-AIML) will feature six keynote talks, a panel discussion, and 182 paper presentations in Statler Hall. The conference is sponsored by the Cornell AI Initiative, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society, and the Department of Economics.

While registration is required for full participation, the talks are open to the public.

“AI has the potential to improve lives – one way is by informing data-driven decision making. We are only just beginning to get a glimpse of how significantly AI can assist and inform the field of economics,” said Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science, and co-organizer of the event with Francesca Molinari, the H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor of Economics and professor of statistics. “This conference highlights the synergy needed to harness AI’s potential for the greater good.”

The conference will feature keynote talks from: 

• David Blei, Columbia University
• Annie Liang, Northwestern University
• Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania
• Timothy Christensen, Yale University
• Minmin Chen, Google
• Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science, will moderate a panel, “The evolving interface of economics and computing: Past experiences and future outlooks,” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 in the Alice Statler Auditorium. The panel will feature: 

• Drew Fudenberg, MIT 
• José Luis Montiel Olea, Cornell 
• Jamie Morgenstern, University of Washington
• Ariel Procaccia, Harvard University

Large language models (LLM), algorithmic pricing, AI in finance, LLMs and economic behavior, algorithmic fairness, and agentic e-commerce are a sampling of topics covered among the 182 conference paper presentations.

A full conference program is available on the conference webpage.

Founded in 1930, the Econometric Society is an international group championing the advancement of economic theory as it relates to statistics and mathematics. The society meets annually in North America and Europe and launched the Interdisciplinary Frontiers conference series in 2024, with Cornell hosting the inaugural meeting in the biennial series on AIML in 2024. 

Louis DiPietro is a writer for the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.