Working Papers
How People Use ChatGPT
with Ronnie Chatterji, Tom Cunningham, David Deming, Christopher Ong, Carl Shan, and Kevin Wadman
[Draft: September 2025]

Contextually Private Mechanisms
with Andreas Haupt
Conditionally accepted at American Economic Review
Extended abstract at EC ‘22
[Draft: December 2025]

Platform Growth is Hard: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Carpooling Platform
with Abhijit Banerjee and Rema Hanna
Reject and Resubmit at Management Science
[Draft: October 2025]

Opaque Contracts
with Andreas Haupt
[Draft: January 2023]

Optimal Defaults, Limited Enforcement and the Regulation of Contracts
with Benjamin Niswonger
[Draft: February 2023]

Published Papers
AI’s Use of Knowledge in Society
with Erik Brynjolfsson
NBER Volume on Transformative AI
[Draft: September 2025]

Contextual Confidence and Generative AI
with Shrey Jain and Pamela Mishkin
IEEE Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, 2025
[Draft: October 2024] [MSR Podcast]

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]

The Normative Gap: Mechanism Design and Ideal Theories of Justice
Economics & Philosophy, Vol. 36 (3), November 2020
Best paper award at MD4SG Workshop at ACM EC ‘19
[Paper]

I am the author of two books of poetry:

Not Us Now, winner of the Changes Book Prize (judged by Louise Glück), published by Changes in 2024.

Mezzanine, published by Ecco/Harpercollins in 2020.

I currently serve as poetry editor of The Drift.

Some of my poems are online: Paris Review The New Yorker Poetry Harpers New Statesman London Review of Books New York Review of Books Granta.

Selected features, reviews and interviews are also online: The New Yorker Poetry Podcast Colloquy The White Review Poetry Foundation McSweeney’s Chicago Review of Books Cleveland Review of Books Adroit Antiphony

I also do literary essays, criticism, and interviews:
On how we surveil the people we love
On art made by DALL-E
On Rachel Kushner
On Ryan Ruby
On Ben Lerner
On Ocean Vuong

Personhood Credentials: Artificial intelligence and the Value of Privacy-Preserving Tools to Distinguish Who is Real Online
with Steven Adler, Shrey Jain and many others
2025 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum
[Draft: August 2024] [Washington Post] [MIT Tech Review] [MSR Podcast] [NBC Boston]

Economic Democracy and Market Power
with Michelle Meagher, André Veiga and Glen Weyl
Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle, 2020
[Paper]

The Technological Politics of Mechanism Design
with Lily Hu and Salomé Viljoen
University of Chicago Law Review, 2019
[Paper]