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The danger of relying on OpenAI's Deep Research
Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful
“Asking OpenAI’s Deep Research about topics I am writing papers on has been incredibly fruitful,” said Ethan Mollick of the University of Pennsylvania. “I think of the quality as comparable to having a good PhD-level research assistant, and sending that person away with a task for a week or two,” said Tyler Cowen of George Mason University, an economist with cult-like status in Silicon Valley. This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Often helpful, sometimes bad, always dangerous”
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