Sam Gilbert

Writing

My current research is on the economic implications of generative AI and the political legitimacy of big tech companies. Previously I worked on search data, data ethics, digital advertising, crypto, and the metaverse.

Some of these pieces are paywalled; if you can’t reach something you’d like to read, feel free to email me.

Generative AI and public policy

How AI changes firms and markets, and what policymakers should do about it.

AI and scientific research

A series with Dr Steven Wooding for Villum Fonden on what generative AI does to research practice, funding and assessment

Big tech: power, legitimacy and regulation

A realist alternative to the “surveillance capitalism” framing of tech companies’ power.

Other thinking

I don’t always stay exactly in my lane.

Earlier work

Search data and public policy

Between 2019 and 2022 I worked on what Google search data can tell policymakers — particularly about wellbeing during the pandemic.

Advertising, privacy, and data ethics

Crypto and the metaverse

Fintech and insurance

From my time in industry, before I moved to research.

Talks, panels, podcasts

Press and media

Where journalists have quoted or interviewed me.