The Fed's new task forces feature big names in business, from Marc Andreessen to Asha Sharma

• Charles I. Jones, Stanford economist
• Asha Sharma, CEO of XBOX

Their Mission: Study how artificial intelligence and technological change are affecting productivity, employment, and economic growth.

This is arguably the highest-profile panel. Andreessen has been one of Silicon Valley’s most vocal AI advocates, while Sharma leads Microsoft’s XBOX business, with both bringing firsthand experience developing next-gen tools.

Inflation Frameworks

Leaders:

• Greg Mankiw, Harvard economist
• Thomas J. Sargent, Nobel Prize-winning economist
• William White, former chief economist at the Bank for International Settlements

Their Mission: Review the Fed’s inflation framework and its measures of price stability.

The panel features three of the world’s best-known monetary economists. Warsh has suggested the Fed should reconsider how it thinks about inflation as the economy evolves.