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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Ronnie Chatterji - How the Labor Market Looks from Inside Open AI
What does it look like to do economics from inside the AI revolution with access to data nobody else has, and questions nobody has figured out how to answer yet?
In this episode, Ben sits down with Ronnie Chatterji, chief economist at OpenAI, to pull back the curtain on how economic research actually gets done at a frontier AI lab.
Topics covered:
Why the right time horizon for AI economics is a mix of real-time, medium-term, and scenario planning
Why you can't afford to be late to recursive self-improvement even when it feels far away
What OpenAI's own labor data is showing
The four-category…
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