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Will AI replace Academic Economics Researcher jobs? · Latest report #9ksepdr8
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October 21, 2028
In 2 yearsYour R-squared is significant, but your future is statistically zero.
Tenure-track dreamer with a messy Excel folder.
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oof.youAI▸ MODELSHRINK 9000▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 2 YEARSAI's Special Power
derives infinite utility from pure noise
You spend years cleaning datasets and running regressions to publish papers that three people will ever read.
The one thing AI can't do
You alone can explain why the model fails when the data isn't perfectly clean.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Bots automatically scrape and clean your messy datasets overnight.
Month 6
Algorithms run every possible model combination while you sleep.
Month 12
Machines write and submit papers directly to journal servers.
Month 16
Large language models hallucinate convincing grant proposals for funding.
Year 2 · D-Day
Economics becomes a closed-loop system of machines analyzing machine data.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 94%
Zero point two
Average citations per year
Four million
Regression models run
Eighty percent
Time spent formatting tables
Your severance
A lifetime subscription to JSTOR and a coffee mug.
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