Claude's audit of an economics book holds up, says economist Bryan Caplan
sebkrier · x · 2026-10-30
Economist Bryan Caplan says he carefully reviewed a Claude-generated audit of Paul Johnson's Modern Times and found the vast majority of detected errors held up under scrutiny. While he hasn't reviewed the contested AI audit of the Saez-Zucman paper, he argues people who dismiss AI audits without reading them are 'very wrong to do so' — a firsthand data point on LLMs' reliability for scholarly fact-checking.
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