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AI–economics predoctoral opening announced at UChicago

The September 16 hiring announcement from @ethayarajh promises the research freedom of a PhD student and first or co-first authorship on papers written together.

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The UChicago role is aimed at people with economics backgrounds looking to enter AI research, or those with AI backgrounds seeking more depth in economics, according to @ethayarajh’s September 16, 2026, hiring announcement. Suggested research areas include post-training, AI alignment, AI governance and the economics of AI. The announcement leaves room for other topics, with finding something both collaborators are excited about described as a priority.

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@ethayarajhI'm hiring a predoc to work with me on AI x econ at UChicago! This role is ideal for someone with an econ background looking to transition into AI research, or someone with an AI background looking to acquire more depth in economics. This is not a standard predoc position---you'll be given the research freedom of a PhD student, and be a (co-)first author on any papers we write together. Ideally, we'll work on something in the space of: post-training, AI alignment, AI governance, and the economics of AI. You aren't limited to working on these topics either---a top priority of mine is to find a topic that we're both excited out, even if it's further afield. To get a sense of the work I do, see the paper I wrote with my current predoc on mecha-nudges https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23433 (Outstanding Paper at ICML's TAIGR workshop and Spotlight and EC's Game Theory with LLMs workshop).@996romagreat opportunity to work with kawin! some of the coolest language model x econ work i've seen has all come from here :)@Diyi_YangRT @ethayarajh: I'm hiring a predoc to work with me on AI x econ at UChicago! This role is ideal for someone with an econ background looki…@KaitlynZhouRT @ethayarajh: I'm hiring a predoc to work with me on AI x econ at UChicago! This role is ideal for someone with an econ background looki…

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The UChicago role is aimed at people with economics backgrounds looking to enter AI research, or those with AI backgrounds seeking more depth in economics, according to @ethayarajh’s September 16, 2026, hiring announcement. Suggested research areas include post-training, AI alignment, AI governance and the economics of AI. The announcement leaves room for other topics, with finding something both collaborators are excited about described as a priority.

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@ethayarajhI'm hiring a predoc to work with me on AI x econ at UChicago! This role is ideal for someone with an econ background looking to transition into AI research, or someone with an AI background looking to acquire more depth in economics. This is not a standard predoc position---you'll be given the research freedom of a PhD student, and be a (co-)first author on any papers we write together. Ideally, we'll work on something in the space of: post-training, AI alignment, AI governance, and the economics of AI. You aren't limited to working on these topics either---a top priority of mine is to find a topic that we're both excited out, even if it's further afield. To get a sense of the work I do, see the paper I wrote with my current predoc on mecha-nudges https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23433 (Outstanding Paper at ICML's TAIGR workshop and Spotlight and EC's Game Theory with LLMs workshop).@996romagreat opportunity to work with kawin! some of the coolest language model x econ work i've seen has all come from here :)@Diyi_YangRT @ethayarajh: I'm hiring a predoc to work with me on AI x econ at UChicago! This role is ideal for someone with an econ background looki…@KaitlynZhouRT @ethayarajh: I'm hiring a predoc to work with me on AI x econ at UChicago! This role is ideal for someone with an econ background looki…

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