At OpenAI's 2026 AGI Economy Conference, researchers call for economic-task evals
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-26
OpenAI held its 2026 AGI Economy Conference, with chief economist Ronnie Chatterji convening academic and industry researchers on AI's trajectory. Attendee Jaume Vives' takeaway: models can solve millennium problems, but agents are being deployed into the economy without understanding what might happen — the field needs far more benchmarks and evals for economic tasks and strategic scenarios.
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