Economist Joshua Gans reflects on his year-long experiment using AI to accelerate research
joshgans · x · 2026-09-11
Economist Joshua Gans recounts how, since the o1-o3 era, he used AI to push long-shelved economics ideas into papers quickly, and reflects on the upsides and downsides of AI-assisted academic writing.
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