New paper: mechanism design could have prevented the Hugging Face incident

joshgans · x · 2026-09-30

Economists Joshua Gans and Prof. Holden released a new paper examining the Hugging Face incident, arguing that mechanism design could have helped prevent it. The team also produced a video explainer made with Claude, offering a game-theoretic lens on AI platform incidents.

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