Andrew Kao

PhD Student, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Andrew Kao is a PhD student in Economics at Harvard and an affiliate at the Center for American Political Studies. His current research interests include political economy and development. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2020 with a B.S. in computational and applied math and a B.A. in economics.

Recent work by Andrew Kao

How the surveillance state is exported through trade in AI

Autocracies and weak democracies are more likely to import facial recognition AI from China, particularly in years when they experience domestic unrest

Trade

Martin Beraja Andrew Kao David Yang Noam Yuchtman

Published 09.10.23

Autocratic AI dystopias: Science fiction or social science fact?

China's autocratic political regime and the rapid innovation in its AI sector mutually reinforce each other

Institutions & Political Economy

Martin Beraja Andrew Kao David Yang Noam Yuchtman

Published 12.05.23