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The flow of ideas goes both ways between AI and economy. Notably, the economist Friedrich Hayek [1] was a source of inspiration in the development of AI.

He wrote in 1945 on the idea that the price mechanism serves to share and synchronise local and personal knowledge [2]. In 1952, he described the brain as a self-ordering classification system based on a network of connections [3]. This last work was cited as a source of inspiration by Frank Rosenblatt in his 1958 paper on the perceptron [4], one of the pioneering studies in machine learning.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Societ...

[3]: https://archive.org/details/sensoryorderinqu00haye

[2]: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/cogs501/Rosenblatt1958.pd...