In the future, advances in AI will make most things we care about too cheap to meter. I expect most goods, services, and web content will be available without friction, cost, or ads. In order to create that abundance, I think the field as a whole has to do this.
Our original vote-by-mail paper took months of work: collecting election data, cleaning it, coding treatment timing, running specifications, iterating on robustness checks. Claude replicated and extended that work in under an hour for about ten dollars
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The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition?