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 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

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"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!

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!

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=...

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...

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...

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...

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)

Tomorrow 5pm at the Oxford Martin School! www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/the-m...

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

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 1/2

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 1/2

Another nice review of "The Means of Prediction" in @technologyreview.com / @techreview: www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1... (Also discussing lovely new books by @beenwrekt.bsky.social / @beenwrekt and @carissaveliz.bsky.social / @CarissaVeliz )

🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥 "Employing the unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a guaranteed job program" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Another nice review of "The Means of Prediction" in @technologyreview.com / @techreview: www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1... (Also discussing lovely new books by @beenwrekt.bsky.social / @beenwrekt and @carissaveliz.bsky.social / @CarissaVeliz )

🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥 "Employing the unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a guaranteed job program" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines.

Worker activism in tech is back. It's starting with opposition to ICE, but I think it will spill over into other areas. This thread will share what's happened recently and what I think might be next. As well as ways for folks to get involved if they want to.

“LLMs are not just labor-replacing and productivity-expanding, but can, in some circumstances at least, enable the production of totally new things.” @mattbruenig.bsky.social mattbruenig.com/2026/02/10/t... ht @mitchsaid.bsky.social

My slides for today's ML & Econ group meeting: "Double descent,” and what linear regression can teach us about the coming collapse (?) of the AI bubble. maxkasy.github.io/home/files/o... (Based mainly on "Learning Theory from First Principles," chapter 12, www.di.ens.fr/%7Efbach/ltf... )

📕 🔊 "The means of prediction" is now available as audiobook! 🔊 📕 www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GL99H5J...

Recording of my talk on "Machine learning, causal inference, and economics" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qufn...

Very nice review of "The means of prediction" by @B_Eichengreen: smartthinkingbooks.com/smart-thinki...

The means of prediction and the production function of AI maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Thoughts and comments welcome! 2/2

Now with correct links - forthcoming policy-papers and essays: Individual property rights or collective democratic governance? Privacy in the age of AI maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Welfare for the 21st century: Basic income and job guarantee policies maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... 1/2

The means of prediction and the production function of AI maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Thoughts and comments welcome! 2/2

Now with correct links - forthcoming policy-papers and essays: Individual property rights or collective democratic governance? Privacy in the age of AI maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Welfare for the 21st century: Basic income and job guarantee policies maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... 1/2

What is “mechanistic interpretability” (MI) of neural networks? This paper gives a great introduction: arxiv.org/abs/2404.14082 MI empirically explores “how neural networks work,” in a spirit similar to neuroscience - without the ethical constraints on manipulating living brains.

📕 🔊 "The means of prediction" is now available as audiobook! 🔊 📕 www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GL99H5J...

Large scale conversion of warehouses into camps to concentrate migrants is taking place:

Large scale conversion of warehouses into camps to concentrate migrants is taking place:

What is the backdrop for recent protests in Iran? Between concentration of economic power in semi-private foundations, intra-elite fractures, rising precarity, poverty, food and fuel prices, and state repression, this article provides excellent analysis:

Looking forward to the workshop on “Causal Machine Learning for the Social Sciences” at the Newton Institute/Cambridge: www.newton.ac.uk/event/cifw05/ I will discuss the big picture of possible research agendas at the intersection of ML, causality, and econ: maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...

Science personnel and funding gutted at astonishing scale in the US: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...