Heather Long

One of the key things for me was about a year ago, this was National Academy's consensus study, really pointing out that the

The value of AI in the future for people making high stakes decisions is going to be for people that have some expertise.

So if our students are offloading that development of expertise, just using it to get answers, then that's not going to help them.

So the question then really focuses on how do we help students develop expertise?

Both disciplinary expertise, but alongside that, AI skills that use AI as a complement to their own thinking.

Exactly.

Yeah, I think so.

You know, one of the nice things about macroeconomics writ large is that you can ask the same questions, but you have different answers depending on what's going on in the economy, right?

And who the economists are.

That's right.

That's right.

So it's not just one course or one professor doing this, right?

It's a matter of students getting regular exposure, regular practice, reflection, and

feedback, to really hone their skills about how to really effectively use AI as a partner in their thinking.

So my hope is that this course can be part of that, a start to that.

Great, thanks.

It's been great talking with you.

Yes, that's the big question. I'm on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm probably somewhere around a 5 or 6 now, which is way higher. If we had this conversation in January, I think I would have been like a 2. So it just shows you how much it's jumped up. You can pick your favorite economist. I think JP Morgan put the recession odds at 40%. Larry Summers was at 50%.

Yes, that's the big question. I'm on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm probably somewhere around a 5 or 6 now, which is way higher. If we had this conversation in January, I think I would have been like a 2. So it just shows you how much it's jumped up. You can pick your favorite economist. I think JP Morgan put the recession odds at 40%. Larry Summers was at 50%.

Yes, that's the big question. I'm on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm probably somewhere around a 5 or 6 now, which is way higher. If we had this conversation in January, I think I would have been like a 2. So it just shows you how much it's jumped up. You can pick your favorite economist. I think JP Morgan put the recession odds at 40%. Larry Summers was at 50%.