OpenAI Chief Economist: AI Now Handles 90% of His Research Team's Work
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-11
Economist SC notes AI capabilities sit at a sweet spot for economists: models are increasingly good at data cleaning, coding and proofs — 90% of the job — but only somewhat useful for economic intuition, regularly making fallacious arguments.
OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji reposted: his research team is speeding up that "90% of our work" and focusing collective attention on the remaining 10%, with fewer open-ended side quests boosting overall productivity.
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