"Just in time research": intelligence will be abundant long before institutional capacity
joshgans · x · 2026-10-08
Economist Joshua Gans boosts nickacaputo's case for "just in time research." The argument: intelligence will very likely become abundant long before institutional capacity does, so the old model of pre-packaging policy research for time-constrained decisionmakers needs rethinking. The implication is to invest in building institutional capacity now, with consequences for how AI governance is set up over the next few years.
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