Erik Brynjolfsson

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Hard Fork · The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

The government is cutting back on data collection, eviscerating some of the statistical agencies.

I feel for those people as they're trying to do it.

This is the time, if anything, we should be

doubling and, you know, investing more in visibility.

It's a really high ROI activity.

It just costs a tiny bit of the budget and will help us make better decisions, not only as policymakers, but also as managers.

That said, you know, there's only so much I can do about the federal budget.

What I can do is at the Digital Economy Lab, create the AI economic indicators, partner with private organizations.

We're incredibly lucky that there's a bunch of real-time data that's being just collected by companies anyways, you know, Ramp, Revelio,

And so we can tap into these data sources and get some kinds of visibility.

They're not always collected for the purpose of being representative.

So you have to do some work to kind of normalize them and measure them.

But by creating an infrastructure to get more visibility, we can do more.

And we're creating a new taxonomy of the kinds of tasks that are being done in the economy.

There's something called O-Net that lists all the tasks that workers do in the American economy.

And we're creating an updated version of that.

I think over the coming months and years, we'll be able to get much more real-time visibility and a much more fine-grained way of what's happening in the economy.

And that will allow us to sense and respond to what's doing.

I mean, we can only do so much about predicting what's going to happen next.

But it's sometimes easier to at least measure it quickly and then allow people to respond to that.

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