@joel_bkr: if any economics profs would want help in securing funding to work on big AI questions, please please get in touch.
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A call for economics professors to seek funding to work on major AI questions, emphasizing the need for economists to engage with AI problems.
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if any economics profs would want help in securing funding to work on big AI questions, please please get in touch. https://t.co/LGG7wyCIi5
Joel Becker (@joel_bkr): new (spicy) post from me: “Economists, mobilize”
economics ideas are extremely helpful for understanding AI, but academia is dropping the ball.
now is the time for economists to work on the most important problems in AI and to loudly encourage colleagues to do the same.
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