How to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
研究发现，随着机器阅读量（由机器下载和AI投资者持有代理）增加，公司会调整披露文件使其更易被机器处理，并减少被算法负面解读的语气，该效应在融资需求高或诉讼风险低的公司中更强。
Abstract Growing AI readership (proxied for by machine downloads and ownership by AI-equipped investors) motivates firms to prepare filings friendlier to machine processing and to mitigate linguistic tones that are unfavorably perceived by algorithms. Loughran and McDonald (2011) and BERT available since 2018 serve as event studies supporting attribution of the decrease in the measured negative sentiment to increased machine readership. This relationship is stronger among firms with higher benefits to (e.g., external financing needs) or lower cost (e.g., litigation risk) of sentiment management. This is the first study exploring the feedback effect on corporate disclosure in response to technology. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.