OpenAI launches Economic Research Exchange to study AI's economic impact

Friends, sharing news from OpenAI: the Economic Research Exchange has launched — a platform for external empirical research into AI’s economic effects.

- What: OpenAI Economic Research project collaborations with independent teams; access to tools and data under strict privacy protections.
- Who they seek: empirical and causal-inference specialists in labor, productivity, firms, education, development, inequality, etc.
- Deadlines and submission: apply by 5 July 2026; notifications by 31 July; details and contacts — econresearch@openai.com.

Why it matters: it will broaden the evidence base on AI’s impacts for academia, business and policy.

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