Economist Daniel Gross: defining AI-era 'scientific flourishing' is an epistemological minefield
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-11-16
Economist Daniel Gross argues AI-and-science debates raise more questions than answers: what counts as knowledge existing apart from human understanding, how do we even measure scientific flourishing, and what constitutes transformation. He notes top-5 econ journals served as validation systems and attention guideposts — editors as tastemakers.
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