What Happens When Every Economist Has a Research Factory?

Opublikowano: 2026-09-16

What if every economist had an AI research factory? Academic research has often been a team effort, with complementary skills: theory, empirical work, coding, data management, writing, and project management. Many of those capabilities are increasingly available to a single researcher on demand via AI. But it doesn’t mean the aim is to produce as many papers as possible. In this episode, we explore how AI might change the organization of academic research, why Brooks’s Law remains true inside an AI research factory, and why efficiency should be measured by the quality of the...