Ethan Mollick: AI Can Forecast Economics Treatment Effects, Rethinking How Science Is Done
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-29
Ethan Mollick highlighted economist Eva Vivalt's new working paper showing that AI can successfully forecast treatment effects in economics from pre-registration documents alone.
His broader point: academics invest enormous effort in each paper, pushing them toward predictable, safe research questions, while AI faces no such constraint — forcing a rethink of how science itself is organized.
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