AI Agents Audit 138 Economics Papers, Flag 2,035 Potential Problems
haider1 · x · 2026-10-30
According to haider1, Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra independently audited 138 economics papers and flagged 2,035 potential problems, 147 of them serious enough to change headline numbers. A third agent then attempted to verify and refute the findings. The poster welcomes AI exposing decades of human slop passed off as research.
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