AI economist ranks grew 10-30x, yet early insider says most newcomers' frames are useless or harmful
voooooogel · x · 2026-10-24
- Researcher jankulveit recalls that only a handful of economists seriously studied AI a few years ago (Aki Korinek, Paul Trammell, Erik Brynjolfsson, Carl Shulman and collaborators), when he argued the field should be 10x bigger.
- The field did grow roughly 10-30x, but he is disappointed: most new economists bring mindsets and frames he considers somewhere between unhelpful and directly harmful.
- voooooogel followed up asking about the "copes in demand by the labs," framing this as an ongoing dispute over the quality of AI-economics discourse.
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