Economists argue social scientists have too little influence on AI training and evaluation
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-15
Economist Sophia Kazinnik pushes back in a debate with Borusyak on how economists should engage with AI's labor-market impact, arguing that economists and social scientists have had far too little influence on how AI systems are trained and evaluated, and that refusing to engage accomplishes nothing.
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