Tyler Cowen is an economist, author, and podcaster at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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Tyler Cowen as author
Research shows that investors significantly rely on ChatGPT for trading decisions, as evidenced by reduced trading volume during ChatGPT outages and measurable impacts on stock price informativeness.
“Author of "Trading with ChatGPT" in Marginal Revolution”
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Mercor hires domain experts like poets at premium rates ($150/hour) to create evaluation frameworks and training data for frontier AI models, enabling knowledge transfer at scale across billions of users.
“Host conducting interview with Brendan Foody about AI training, knowledge work, and future of expertise.”
Anthropic proposes nine categories of economic policy ideas for policymakers to address AI's uncertain economic impacts, organized across three scenarios from modest to severe labor market disruption.
“Member of Anthropic's Economic Advisory Council, quoted expressing support for permitting reform including the energy sector”
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US productivity growth may have surged to 2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the prior decade's 1.4% average, driven by AI and technology gains despite downward job growth revisions.
“Referenced in "You See Tech and AI Everywhere, But in the Productivity Statistics"”
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“Predicts AI will be bigger issue in 2028; advocates for explaining AI importance despite discomfort.”
“Discussed whether AI capex could form a bubble with multiple failure points in the infrastructure supply chain.”
AI systems trained on internet content are replacing human readers as the primary audience for written work, prompting writers and PR professionals to optimize content specifically for AI comprehension rather than human search engine visibility.
“Announced he has begun thinking of himself as writing for AI as well as humans, to boost influence and help teach AIs about topics he cares about.”