Why AI is bad at PhD-level econ theory: labs optimize for economically valuable tasks
QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-09-11
An opinion thread on AI's blind spot: @achenfinance argues AI struggles with PhD-level economic theory because labs train on economically valuable tasks. Quoting @alzzyd: you could formalize all of economics in Lean and it would still be bullshit — the core difference from math, and why economics will survive LLMs longer than math will.
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