Economists studying AI grew 10-30x, but the quality is 'disappointing so far'
jankulveit · x · 2026-10-24
jankulveit recalls that a few years ago only a handful of economists seriously thought about AI (Korinek, Trammell, Brynjolfsson, Carl Shulman and a few collaborators), and he thought there should be 10x as many. Now the field has grown 10-30x, but he finds the result disappointing: most newcomers bring mindsets and frames ranging from unhelpful to directly harmful—a sharp insider critique of the current state of AI economics research.
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