Economist: AI's academic productivity gains come with equally huge moral hazard
_akpiper · x · 2026-11-09
Economist Paul Novosad highlights the core tension of AI in academic workflows: productivity advantages are gigantic, and so are the moral hazard problems. Any vision for integrating AI into research institutions that ignores one side 'is not a serious vision,' he argues.
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