OpenAI Researcher: Econ Theorists Have the Best Intuitions for Managing Agent Swarms
willcb · x · 2026-10-10
OpenAI researcher Will Brown argues econ theorists may have the best intuitions for managing agent swarms: we now wield armies of boundedly-rational, partially-aligned agents with staggering communication and transaction costs — something economists have studied for 50 years. He even suggests math-inclined academics consider an econ PhD as a five-year bet on studying what comes next.
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