Economists Debate How to Study AI: No Time to Wait for Perfect Causal Identification

Economists Alex Olegimas and Anna Salomons, endorsed by Daniel Rock, debate methodology for empirical AI economics research. Olegimas argues that instead of waiting years for clean causal identification, researchers should leverage today's noisy signals to build evidence now.

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