When AI Replaces the Research Team

Opublikowano: 2026-09-18

To summarize, AI might soon grant a single researcher access to much of the capacity that used to belong to an entire academic team: theory, coding, empirical analysis, data work, writing, and project management. That opens a more profound question: what if every economist owns a research factory? This episode is about more than the simple idea that AI will help academics write more papers. Research factories are about efficiency, not output maximization. They could enable researchers to explore ideas sooner, to kill weak projects sooner, to explore strong ideas more fully, and to concentrate on the...