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Technology & AIAug 24, 2026

The Measurement Revolution? Credible Measurement and Inference in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming measurement in economics.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming measurement in economics. AI models convert unstructured data, such as text and images, into structured variables at low cost, making previously prohibitive measurement feasible at scale. This shifts the bottleneck from finding any…

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