Economists: AI-automated data analysis is the obvious next step, oversight is the hard part
_akpiper · x · 2026-10-08
Economist alzzyd reflects on a 20-year era when data grew faster than the intelligence available to process it, letting empirical economists build careers on finding insights in public data. @akpiper responds that the scale of data now clearly demands automated analysis via AI — but oversight and auditing will be the real challenge.
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