Dilek Sayedahmed (@dileksay2.substack.com)

When AI can do an undergrad’s problem set in seconds, how should teaching, and the syllabus, respond? This was such an important listen. It resonated deeply—I see this every semester with prospective econ students. Who better to answer this than Wendy Carlin of CEPR Paris. Merci Dame Wendy.

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Has AI eaten the economics major? In another of our episodes recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium, we ask: When Gen AI can do an undergraduate’s problem set in seconds, how should teaching, and the syllabus, respond? Who better to answer this than Wendy Carlin of UCL and CEPR? Wendy – who has recently become Dame Wendy – was at the symposium to talk about her project to change economics teaching through the CORE Project, which more than 500 institutions use to teach introductory economics in a way that flips the standard textbook treatment on it head. Recently Wendy and CORE have been working to harness the power of AI to help students apply their knowledge in unfamiliar settings, to reason and discriminate, to make AI into what she calls “A cognitive sparring partner”. She tells Tim Phillips what that means for the Economics Major, and why that might create economics graduates with the skills that employers value. https://cepr.org/multimedia/has-ai-eaten-economics-major