I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of
@reviewer3com.bsky.social, Refine.ink, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to Gemini 3.1). Costs <$2!

Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @openrouter.bsky.social key, and email. #econsky

🌍 INEQ Research Seminar
Who benefits from AI?

On April 14, @maxkasy.bsky.social joins our seminar to present his book “The Means of Prediction” – on power, control and inequality in the age of AI.

🗓 April 14, 4:00 pm
🔗 Info & registration: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_va_kasy
#INEQ #INEQ_RS

The Economist Who Wants to Solve America’s Wage Problem The economist Arindrajit Dube believes that the answer to fixing America’s wage problem is to empower workers and set mandatory wage standards across industries.

The economist Arindrajit Dube believes that the answer to fixing America’s wage problem is to empower workers and set mandatory wage standards across industries. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

What is funding the rapid growth of AI companies? At our recent conference on AI and news, @maxkasy.bsky.social of @oxfordecondept.bsky.social cited the involvement of companies involved in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems.

buff.ly/r6gCk3h

Someone sent me this.

"Cancel-culture" in action:
This paper argues that the US governments' blacklisting of research on topics including gender, race, and the environment (for funding) has led to pre-emptive self-censorship in economics working papers.
shs.hal.science/halshs-05519...

🔥 🌐 Workshop announcement: 🌐🔥
AI and the political economy of information filtering
May 25-27, 2026

Workshop website:
maxkasy.github.io/home/informa...

Registration:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

💲💲💲 New version available: 💲💲💲

Basic income and labor supply: Theory and evidence from an RCT in Germany

maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

#basicincome #ubi

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🔥 🌐 Workshop announcement: 🌐🔥
AI and the political economy of information filtering
May 25-27, 2026

Workshop website:
maxkasy.github.io/home/informa...

Registration:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract

🔥➗️ New workingpaper: ➗️🔥
"From Cross-Validation to SURE: Asymptotic Risk of Tuned Regularized Estimators"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

This was inspired by conversations with Gary Chamberlain 10 years ago,
and ended up a heavier lift than anticipated.

Any feedback & comments are appreciated!

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

Must-read piece on the role of tech and policy
in the killing of 180 Iranian school girls by US bombs:

📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣

The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods.

Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.

🔥➗️ New workingpaper: ➗️🔥
"From Cross-Validation to SURE: Asymptotic Risk of Tuned Regularized Estimators"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

This was inspired by conversations with Gary Chamberlain 10 years ago,
and ended up a heavier lift than anticipated.

Any feedback & comments are appreciated!

Monopsony in Motion Alan Manning

I might be 20 years late here, but “Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets” by Allan Manning (@alanmanning4.bsky.social) is a joy to read, both for its prose and for its force of argument:

hoy en El Pais:

elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

PDF version:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/o...

hoy en El Pais:

elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

PDF version:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/o...

David Autor (@davidautor.bsky.social) just wrote a very kind and thoughtful review of "The Means of Prediction" for the Journal of Economic Literature (@aeajournals.bsky.social):
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

microgpt Musings of a Computer Scientist.

A complete GPT — dataset, tokenizer, autograd engine, transformer architecture, Adam optimizer, training loop, inference — in 200 lines of pure Python, zero dependencies:
🔗 karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/m...

A work of art by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy.bsky.social) | h/t F.Geiecke

He has co-written a new policy brief about Universal Basic Income and Job Guarantees. The brief discusses the key theoretical issues as well as the latest results of his empirical work on these topics in Austria and Germany. Read the brief on the EfIP website: econfip.org/policy-brief...

The means of prediction and the production function of AI - Economics for Inclusive Prosperity Executive Summary Introduction How should we regulate AI? This debate is often dominated by arguments between “AI boomers” and “AI doomers” (Hao, 2025). AI boomers claim that building “artificial gene...

New on the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity website: A fascinating research brief by University of Oxford Professor Maximilian Kasy on why the true battle for future of AI is between different groups of people with different priorities—not humans vs machines.
#econfip
econfip.org/policy-brief...

Not Inevitable: Democratizing power over AI for public good vs private gain Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · February 25 · 43m

New episode! University of Oxford economist Max Kasy demystifies AI and explores ways to ensure that it's not exclusively controlled by tech titans. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Book talk - 'The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)' with Maximilian Kasy YouTube video by Oxford Martin School

Next was an excellent talk by @maxkasy.bsky.social on how the very human forces shaping the development of generative AI and who benefits from its current trajectory at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm9w... (5/8)

Book talk - 'The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who… As economist Maximilian Kasy shows in The Means of Prediction , artificial intelligence, far from being an unstoppable force, is irrevocably shaped by…

Tomorrow 5pm at the Oxford Martin School!

www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/the-m...

Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? As fears of mass unemployment grow, three leading economists advocate some policies to shift the focus from job displacement to job enhancement.

Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Not inevitable: How to democratize power over AI away from the tech titans | 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…

Just released: Efip podcast episode on how to democratize power over AI
inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com/episodes/not...

(Other episodes with @rodrikdani @AtifRMian @S_Stantcheva: inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com)

cc @econfip.bsky.social
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The means of prediction and the production function of AI - Economics for Inclusive Prosperity Executive Summary Introduction How should we regulate AI? This debate is often dominated by arguments between “AI boomers” and “AI doomers” (Hao, 2025). AI boomers claim that building “artificial…

Efip policy brief on the same topic: econfip.org/policy-brief...

Which in turn summarizes key ideas from press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Not inevitable: How to democratize power over AI away from the tech titans | 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…

Just released: Efip podcast episode on how to democratize power over AI
inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com/episodes/not...

(Other episodes with @rodrikdani @AtifRMian @S_Stantcheva: inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com)

cc @econfip.bsky.social
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