Exponential View is appointing its first Research Fellow.
We are looking for an economist who can connect frontier economic thinking to messy, real-world evidence and reach useful judgments with the foresight Exponential View is renowned for.
The Fellow will investigate how AI is changing economic value, work, firms and markets. The questions may include but are not limited to:
How should AI companies, infrastructure and capabilities be valued from first principles?
Where in the AI value chain is the economic surplus created, and who is capturing it?
What is AI’s impact on wages, employment, productivity and worker bargaining power long-term?
What are the microeconomic effects inside firms?
What counts as transformative AI and which leading indicators would reveal the state of the transition?
We don’t expect the Fellow to arrive with settled answers. But we do expect the Fellow to know how to turn our questions into testable economic mechanisms, assumptions and back-of-the-env…
