Daniel Rock assembles all-star team of economists to tackle frontier AI economics
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-19
Economist Daniel Rock revealed his "AI × Economy" team lineup, featuring David Autor, Philippe Aghion, Ajay Agrawal and other leading scholars of labor and innovation economics.
Stanford's Rishi Bommasani said the team's expertise density stands out and will conceptualize frontier AI economics more expansively than current work, which mostly covers AI's effects on work and the economics of R&D automation — leaving areas like the economics of AI for science largely unexplored.
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