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AI agents are ‘transformative’ for economic research – NBER paper

‘Capability spiral’ is leading to rapid improvements, author says, though risks remain

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Artificial intelligence-based agents are having a “transformative” effect on economics, as they remove technical barriers and ease resource constraints, a new paper argues.

Author Anton Korinek emphasises the rapidly improving capabilities of the latest generation of “agentic” AI. As he writes in his working paper – published this week by the US National Bureau of Economic Research – large language models have moved from simple chatbots to being able to plan sequences of actions, gather

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