Selected projects will analyze OpenAI's privacy-preserving datasets.
Positive users praised OpenAI's Economic Research Exchange as a great initiative because it signals a nuanced view of AI's economic effects beyond simple job losses or productivity gains.
The best proposals will begin with an important economic question and explain how approved, privacy-preserving OpenAI data or context could help answer it.
We welcome work on labor markets, employer behavior, household welfare, unequal access, small businesses, public-sector productivity, innovation, market structure, and measuring AI's value.
Applications are now open: https://openai.com/form/economic-research-exchange/ RFP: https://openai.com/index/economic-research-exchange-request-for-proposals/
@RonnieChatterji Empirical work only? What about theory or quantitative macro?
Selected projects will be scoped carefully, with clear milestones, privacy and legal review, and researcher independence in study design and analysis.
@jbsteinberg @RonnieChatterji
@RonnieChatterji might be wrong but if OpenAI controls which datasets researchers can actually access, 'independent' is doing a lot of work there. who decides what they don't get to see?
@RonnieChatterji @OpenAINewsroom Good signal.
The AI economy will not show up cleanly as “jobs lost” or “productivity gained”.
It will hide in workflows, junior hiring, invisible output, firm structure and institutional drift.
We need instruments before the weather changes.
@jbsteinberg @RonnieChatterji Wondering this as well. Have a project with LPH in macro-finance + AI + robust policy.
@RonnieChatterji A great initiative Ronnie, bravo!
@RonnieChatterji @OpenAINewsroom @instaclaws might be interested ?
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@RonnieChatterji Rigorous feels a bit heavy for something moving this fast, half the real economic shifts are happening in late night editing sessions and messy creative experiments, not just structured papers, curious how you actually track that kind of chaos.