24% of NBER economics papers contain AI-generated text, analysis finds
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-09-11
An analysis estimates how much AI is in economics research: roughly 24% of NBER working papers contain at least one window of generated text.
- The author suggests we may stop assuming AI-generated text automatically signals low-quality research if the downstream benefits are overwhelming
- The figure shows how deeply AI has penetrated academic writing — and that evaluation norms will have to shift from detecting AI use to judging its quality
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