Economist: AI's academic productivity gains and moral hazards are both gigantic
paulnovosad · x · 2026-11-09
Development economist Paul Novosad frames the core tension of AI in academic workflows: the productivity advantages are gigantic, and so are the moral hazard problems. Any vision for integrating AI into research institutions that ignores one of the two, he argues, is not a serious vision.
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