AI-invented jargon is showing up in new economics working papers

paulnovosad · x · 2026-08-25

Economist Paul Novosad notes an amusing shift: AI writing loves jargon and sometimes invents it, and some of these new-to-econ words are now appearing in new working papers. Talk with your AI enough and its vocabulary becomes your own shorthand.\n\nHe also flags the tradeoffs: jargon is more precise but loses some readers — and watch out for the footguns.

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