Economics Paper Thanks Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini Argon 4
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-11-03
A footnote screenshot from a new Burning Glass Institute paper shows the author, after thanking a long list of top economists (Acemoglu, Autor and more), formally thanking "Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini Argon 4 for excellent research assistance," plus refine.ink for review.
A mainstream economics institution officially crediting frontier models as research assistants is a notable marker of AI's entry into academic production.
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