This study was pre-registered in the AEA RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0015823) on May 21, 2025, under the title "AI & Expertise research with patent lawyers." The registration can be found at https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/15823} We acknowledge generous input from Mauricio Carneiro, James Manyika, Ruth Porat, Kiera Russell, and Tom Shane (all of Google), as well as the Google InFlow team. Autor gratefully acknowledges support from the Google Technology and Society Visiting Fellows Program, the Hewlett Foundation, the NOMIS Foundation, the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellowship, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the James and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation. Funding for the direct costs of this experiment was provided by Google. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
I, Tatiana Rodchenko, am a full time employee with Google and part of my salary includes monthly vesting of equity grants
Josh Martin discloses a paid contractor relationship to Google, the study's main funder.
I, Zanna Iscenko, am a full time employee with Google and part of my salary includes monthly vesting of equity grants.
I am a full-time employee of Google, and have a material interest in Google as a stockholder.
I, David Pearl, am a full time employee with Google and part of my salary includes monthly vesting of equity grants.
I, Melissa Ferere am a full time employee with Google and part of my salary includes monthly vesting of equity grants.