Rebecca Gu
Senior Project Manager, Electron

Rebecca Gu is a senior project manager at Electron, where she’s building blockchain-based digital infrastructure for the energy industry. Previously, Rebecca was an economist at Baringa Partners, where she wrote a discussion paper on the topic of algorithmic pricing. On the human side, she’s brought forward economic evidence in the first UK High Court case to go to trial for damages against a cartelist. On the machine side, her interest lies in how machine learning and AI are changing what we might consider cartels. Machine learning is also broadly changing the way we shop, the way firms price, and how governments and industry should work together to face these challenges.

Sessions

11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019

Location: Windsor Suite

Executive Briefing: A look at the future of online pricing and algorithm-led collusion

AI Business Summit, Privacy, Ethics, and Compliance

Secondary topics: Reinforcement Learning

Rebecca Gu (Electron), Cris Lowery (Baringa Partners)

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In a future of widespread algorithmic pricing, cooperation between algorithms is easier than ever, resulting in coordinated price rises. Rebecca Gu and Cris Lowery explore how a Q-learner algorithm can inadvertently reach a collusive outcome in a virtual marketplace, which industries are likely to be subject to greater restrictions or scrutiny, and what future digital regulation might look like. Read more.