The Unintended Consequences of Censoring Digital Technology – Evidence from Italy’s ChatGPT Ban

Important piece of research from last year which is one of the few in-production experiments we have seen on the potential impact of banning innovation. Italy’s short lived ban on ChatGPT in 2022 provides empirical evidence on the negative impact on developer productivity. Not hard to reason why - imagine what would happen to recruiter productivity if LinkedIn were banned - but good to have some research to back it up. Bookmark it.