Matthias Oschinski

Few think that the world’s next trillion-dollar tech company will be European. But, perhaps for the first time, that does not seem a silly idea econ.st/3PlThCL

Illustration: Tyler Comrie

New Acemoglu et al. NBER paper: agentic #AI helps individual decisions but erodes the collective knowledge they depend on. A key policy takeaway, in my view: invest in public knowledge infrastructure and the people who maintain it.
Link to full paper: www.nber.org/papers/w34910

Künstliche Intelligenz: Nutzer boykottieren ChatGPT – und bejubeln Claude Künstliche Intelligenz beschleunigt den Informationskrieg. Anthropic verliert und triumphiert zugleich. Und: Meta-Brille gibt intime Aufnahmen weiter. Der KI-Newsletter

Künstliche Intelligenz beschleunigt den Informationskrieg. Anthropic verliert und triumphiert zugleich. Und: Meta-Brille gibt intime Aufnahmen weiter. Der KI-Newsletter

The AI PR problem Sector companies have been slow to address the concerns of ordinary people over the technology

The AI PR problem ft.trib.al/7O8Qm8Z | opinion

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions ft.trib.al/0ClrvCd | opinion

Special Seminar. Can Economic Policy Make Life More Affordable? Jared Bernstein, former chair, Biden administration’s Council of Economic Advisers Discussants: Jesse Rothstein (Public Policy, Economics) and Laura Tyson (Haas) Moderated by Michael Reich (CWED). Wednesday, March 11 4:00–5:30 PM IRLE Conference Room 2521 Channing Way irle.berkeley.edu/events. Numerous polls show widespread dissatisfaction with the U.S. economy and, by extension, with both major political parties. In response, Democrats and Republicans are advancing competing approaches to make the economy more affordable. Can either approach succeed?

Can economic policy make life more affordable?

Join us next Wednesday for a special seminar with @jaredb-econ.bsky.social, @lauradtyson.bsky.social, @jrothst.bsky.social and Michael Reich.

Event details: irle.berkeley.edu/event/can-ec...

AI + work: Understanding AI’s impact on the labor market - The Hamilton Project On March 10, the Budget Lab at Yale, The Hamilton Project, and Peterson Institute for International Economics will host an event on AI’s impact on the labor market.

What do we know about AI’s impact on the labor market? On March 10, Peter Orszag, @jedkolko.bsky.social, @marthagimbel.bsky.social, Bharat Chandar, and @bencasselman.bsky.social will dive into the data and what we know:

Screenshot of quoted post from @incprodmon

This is making the simple obvious point that some tasks are Leontief. As I keep saying: we all become validators/arbitrators providing such services. But: task expansion happens, firm boundaries evolve, expect an SME revolution -- more diversity, more "brands", more variety.

Context:

How worried should we be about AI biorisk? The barriers to bioattacks are hard to identify — and it's even harder to know whether AI is reducing them

This is an excellent piece discussing AI's impact on biorisk, offering a great distillation of key topics. Definitely worth a read!

(And I'm not surprised it's great, given that @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social's own @stephbatalis.bsky.social is quoted!)

www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-biorisk...

India Built the World’s Back Office. A.I. Is Starting to Shrink It. Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it’s too late.

India has long provided a work force to do office tasks more cheaply than in the U.S. or Europe. Now, A.I. threatens to do to India what its outsourcing model did to the rest of the world: replace hundreds of thousands of office workers. The country is racing to adapt before it’s too late.

Daron @DAcemogluMIT uses his language and authority to weigh in pointing out to the possibility of a breakdown of knowledge transmission and the reduction of the stock of skill as consequence of AI. In some societies, this has already happened in the world of "physical skills"...

Bleak Research Report Stokes A.I. Debate on Wall St. In a widely circulated note, Citrini Research painted a dire picture of job losses and stock market sell-offs, though many analysts and economists questioned its conclusions.

A report that described what would happen if A.I. upends white-collar work and the U.S. economy — saying well-paid professionals would be forced to become Uber drivers and miss mortgage payments — was cited as one factor fueling a decline in the S&P 500 on Monday.

Future-Ready: Building Tomorrow’s Tech Workforce | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Please join the Center for Security and Emerging Technology on Tuesday, March 10, for our 2026 Spring Symposium, which will include discussions on building the AI and emerging technology workforce. Th...

What is the current state of U.S. AI training efforts? What can policymakers and educators do to make them better?

Join us on March 10 to explore answers to these questions and more at our 2026 Spring Symposium featuring @bluntrochester.senate.gov!

cset.georgetown.edu/event/future...

Economics for Inclusive Prosperity We need an alternative vision of economics to replace failed neoliberalism and rising economic nationalism. In a world facing record inequality, climate peril, and rising illiberalism, how do we build...

The Economics for Inclusive Prosperity podcast series continues with Max Kasy, on how democracies can rescue AI from tech titans. inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com

The business advantage of strong AI governance Governance and trust are not always getting the attention they need from businesses that implement AI. Leaders need to understand that this comes at a cost.

Fewer than 1% of organizations have fully implemented responsible AI. Yet, the business case in favour of AI governance is straightforward: governance improves data quality, strengthens decision-making, and builds the institutional trust needed to deploy AI at scale.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

Is This What an Economic Bubble Looks Like? AI investment is soaring, but returns remain uncertain.

U.S. AI companies are expected to spend $650 billion on capital investments this year, mostly in the form of data center infrastructure. Adam Tooze breaks down how this will affect the wider economy.

Studying whether low-economic-mobility neighborhoods can be transformed into high-mobility areas through the HOPE VI program, which invested billions to distressed public housing developments, from Chetty, Diamond, Foster, @lkatz42.bsky.social, Porter, Staiger, and Tach www.nber.org/papers/w34720

Exchange rate pass through (as the dollar falls), and tariff pass through (as they reach record highs) #EconSky

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OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.

OpenClaw (aka Moltbot) may have gone completely viral, but it is also a disaster waiting to happen.

A PSA for why you should steer clear.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Nachdenklicher Sonntag. Erich Käster: Ich bin die Zeit

The observed decline in labor’s share of corporate output, in conjunction with relatively weak corporate investment, generates a persistent rise in the ratio of corporate valuation relative to corporate earnings, from Andrew Atkeson, Jonathan Heathcote, and Fabrizio Perri www.nber.org/papers/w34748

Distribution matters: Why record inequality is a big macroeconomic problem Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · 01/28/2026 · 48m

When Dani Rodrik was a guest on my old podcast (PolicyCast), he said "neoliberalism is just bad economics." I got to circle back to that in depth with Princeton U economist Atif Mian in the latest episode of Economics for Inclusive Prosperity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Apple buys Israeli start-up Q.AI as it races Meta and Google on AI devices Deal worth close to $2bn for secretive group that creates technology that analyses facial expressions

Apple buys Israeli start-up Q.AI as it races Meta and Google on AI devices ft.trib.al/BWZOst8

Using a comprehensive dataset of posts from a major platform for anime- and manga-style artwork to study the impact of the launch of a prominent text-to-image generative AI, from Sueyoul Kim, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Eungik Lee www.nber.org/papers/w34733

China lags behind US at AI frontier but could quickly catch up, say experts Beijing’s AI policy is focused on real-life applications but Chinese companies are beginning to articulate their own grand visions

China lags behind US at AI frontier but could quickly catch up, say experts

Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality: Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman in Conversation - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Hear from two leading economic thinkers about how to solve the complex crisis of affordability.

"Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality" -- Register now for the free in-person and livestream event with Lina Khan and @pkrugman.bsky.social. March 9, 6:30 pm, at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social.

stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/event/afford...

When AI Builds AI | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Leading artificial intelligence companies have started to use their own systems to accelerate research and development, with each generation of AI systems contributing to building the next generation....

Claude Code and other AI agents are making strides at automating coding. What are the chances that future generations of AI automate more and more of the AI R&D cycle, leading to a recursive self-improving loop?

Our latest report investigates ⬇️

cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

Beyond the Binary — The Burning Glass Institute Nearly three years into the ChatGPT era, early labor-market data suggest AI is reshaping work in a more complex way than simple job loss or job creation. Skills exposed to automation are seeing demand...

New evidence on AI and work challenges the usual “automation vs. augmentation” framing. Both forces happen within the same jobs. The main issue appears to be rapid job transformation, and whether workers and institutions can adapt in time.
www.burningglassinstitute.org/research/bey...

📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’ The UK’s poorest families are getting poorer, with record numbers of people classed as in “very deep poverty” – meaning their annual household incomes fail to cover the cost of food, energy bills and clothing, according to analysis. Although overall relative poverty levels have flatlined in recent years at about 21% of the population, life for those below the breadline has got materially worse as they try to subsist on incomes many thousands of pounds beneath the poverty threshold. Continue reading...

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows