经济的空间集聚与人工智能发展——基于工业机器人数据的实证检验

Economic Agglomeration and Artificial Intelligence——An Empirical Test based on Robot Data from IFR

人工智能在我国经济社会的发展中扮演着重要的角色,了解其发展条件和基础对于促进其可持续发展具有重要的现实意义。本文基于IFR工业机器人数据及国内统计数据对经济的空间集聚和人工智能发展之间的关系进行实证分析。研究表明,经济的空间集聚程度越高,越有利于该省份人工智能技术的应用和发展,工业机器人渗透度随之越高。此外,人工智能的发展对于经济集聚的依赖程度随经济发展的程度发生阶段性变化,随着经济的持续发展,人工智能技术应用受经济集聚的影响有望下降。

As a strategic technology that has flourished in recent years, artificial intelligence(AI) plays an important role in the development of China’s economy and society. Therefore, understanding the conditions and foundation of its development have important theoretical and practical significance, especially for the promotion of its sustainable development.Based on IFR data, provincial and prefecture-level city statistical data, this paper conducts empirical analysis on the relationship between economic agglomeration and the development of artificial intelligence. The result show that the higher degree of economic concentration within one province implies higher level of application and development of artificial intelligence technology, and then result in the higher penetration of industrial robots. Using spatial GINI index as a measure of the degree of internal economic agglomeration, switching to the spatial weight matrix or using sys-GMM method could not affect the robustness of the conclusion. In addition, panel threshold regression show that the relationship between development of artificial intelligence and economic agglomeration depends on the degree of economic development. Now China is still in the early stage, with the continuous development of the economy, the impact of economic agglomeration on the application of artificial intelligence technology is expected to decline.