Economists Debate How AI Will Reshape Economic Research
Economists including Jan Kulveit and Ben Golub, with MIT researcher David Duvenaud joining in, debated whether AI will produce ten times as many new economists, with Golub arguing that empirics-dominated, conservative economics struggles to generate major new theory in the AI era.
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