OpenAI Launches the Economic Research Exchange to Study AI's Labor and Productivity Impact
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OpenAI announced the Economic Research Exchange, a program to fund and coordinate external research into AI's effects on jobs, productivity, and the broader economy, with applications now open for selected projects. The initiative arrives as labor-displacement debates intensify and OpenAI heads toward public markets. It positions OpenAI to shape the empirical narrative around AI and work.