Prashant Garg
@Prashant_Garg_
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Economics PhD @ImperialCollege. My Research = networks + econometrics + LLMs.
London, UK
Joined March 2018
My childhood dream of being covered in @TheEconomist came true. Unfortunately, it is as part of the article titled "What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics" 😅
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RT @cepr_org: Registration is open for the 10th Text-As-Data Workshop. Join us online for this special anniversary edition!.When: 15-16 Sep….
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RT @florianederer: A PhD economist posting sexist and homophobic content on social media? Now where have I seen this before?.
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RT @antoniomele101: If you haven't read "AI Agents for Economic Research" by @akorinek , you should drop everything and do it right now. Ge….
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More tabs incoming!.
By popular request: you can now branch conversations in ChatGPT, letting you more easily explore different directions without losing your original thread. Available now to logged-in users on web.
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RT @BenSManning: Brand new paper with @johnjhorton that I'm very excited to share: "General Social Agents". Suppose we wanted to create AI….
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The granular view is beautiful!
How well can LLMs mimic human behavior in playing games? What is revealed by the prompts needed to generate different behaviors? They reveal quite a lot:.just published open access with @yutxie @meiqzh @walteryuan
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RT @florianederer: People are still rejecting my papers because I said that all the classics are subsumed in textbooks.
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How long will it take for economics to establish norms like this? 👀.
📣Deadline extended! #Agents4Science submission is now due by Sept 15 AOE. Extra time for your AI agent to finish their paper😉
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We analyzed the public Twitter/X accounts of 98,000 US-based university academics (2016–2022). 44% of these academics openly shared non-neutral views on at least one salient topic—far higher than the 7% of average Twitter users. Political engagement was consistent across
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The stronger a scientist’s political post, the more it hurts their credibility and engagement. Especially with people who disagree.
CDC, BLS, Fed, DIA purges/resignations very concerning. Good governance matters. But field experts (incl. in universities) *have* to act politically neutral b/c we are *clearly* personally more left than median. Why would you literally end this important letter with pronouns? 1/4.
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This might be quite useful!.
AI-generated text is everywhere: hard for orgs to assess human performance. Can we detect it while min false accusations? . Yes! With @alexolegimas we audit detectors, show incredible accuracy ~0 (!!) false pos & neg; and we offer a policy framework for evaluating trade-offs. 🧵
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RT @jburnmurdoch: Very important paper, for two reasons:. 1) Key finding: employment *is* falling in early-career roles exposed to LLM auto….
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RT @phinifa: Last day to submit! This is the anniversary edition: We are hosting the workshop for the 10th time! Apart from presentations o….
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Inflation has always been pop culture.
Tesco meal deal prices have increased. Clubcard holders can now purchase meal deals for £3.85, while regular shoppers will pay £4.25.
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RT @AnthropicAI: We’ve made three new AI fluency courses, co-created with educators, to help teachers and students build practical, respons….
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Amazing new paper on building granular production networks using data from 1 billion transactions.
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For more, see.
🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨.@fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇
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