https://openai.com/index/economic-research-exchange/
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
This morning OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange.
11:42 AM · Jun 8, 2026 · 1.5K Views
OpenAI launches Economic Research Exchange, giving external researchers access to privacy-preserving data to study AI's economic impact
External economists must apply through a public proposal form.
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Positive users praise OpenAI's Economic Research Exchange as a great initiative signaling nuanced AI economic impacts, while negative users question its independence due to potential OpenAI control over researcher data access.
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Ronnie Chatterji@RonnieChatterji
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.
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Ronnie Chatterji@RonnieChatterji
Applications are now open: https://openai.com/form/economic-research-exchange/ RFP: https://openai.com/index/economic-research-exchange-request-for-proposals/
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Joseph Steinberg@jbsteinberg
@RonnieChatterji Empirical work only? What about theory or quantitative macro?
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Ronnie Chatterji@RonnieChatterji
Selected projects will be scoped carefully, with clear milestones, privacy and legal review, and researcher independence in study design and analysis.
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Gabriel@40yoap
@jbsteinberg @RonnieChatterji
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Gregor@bygregorr
@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?
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surreal intelligence@Surreal_Intel
@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.
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𝔐𝔽𝓩@mean_field_zane
@jbsteinberg @RonnieChatterji Wondering this as well. Have a project with LPH in macro-finance + AI + robust policy.
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Patrick Wayte@PatrickWayte
@RonnieChatterji A great initiative Ronnie, bravo!
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Justin@jd_contact
@RonnieChatterji @OpenAINewsroom @instaclaws might be interested ?
Worldcoin $WLD 🫡
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DangcingAI@DangcingAI
@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.
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