Nobel laureate Banerjee joins ETH Zurich panel on how AI will change economics
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-14
A panel on "How AI will Change Economics" featured Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, Ingar Solheim, Emily Aiken (UCSD) and Yanagizawa-Drott. Moderator ellliottt said he could feel the ground shifting: what does limitless intelligence mean for how researchers use time, organize teams, bundle and review papers, staff departments, and train and evaluate PhDs?
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