Top AI Lab Recruiting Macro Economists at $250/hr to Grade AI's Economics — Reddit frets labs are coming for research jobs
mindaro_sienna · reddit · 2026-10-25
A recruiting DM sent to a Minnesota Fed economist shows a top AI lab hiring PhD/postdoc macro economists at $250/hr, 5-10 hrs/week for 3 months, remote and async, to evaluate AI on growth theory, production networks, monetary policy transmission, expectations formation, energy transition modeling, climate economics, business cycles and fiscal multipliers, writing referee-style critiques.
The poster reads this as labs actively moving to replace research economists: imagine asking an agent a complex research question and getting a publishable answer in under an hour — like what happened with mathematicians last month, most academics may not handle it well.
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