Economists debate reading AI-economy papers: quick triangulation beats clean identification for now
daveholtz · x · 2026-09-22
Economists discuss how to read empirical AI-economy research: clean-identification papers take years or decades, but we need signals now. Alex Olegimas argues for accepting imperfect real-time evidence alongside eventual rigorous causal work; Dan Bjork, who wrote on this in Nature, agrees and would now give even more weight to real-time signals.
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