Saturday, May 17, 2025

Overhyped MIT Study Retracted

What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/05/22/what-the-failure-of-a-superstar-student-reveals-about-economics
Aidan Toner-Rodgers was enjoying a meteoric rise at MIT. Then questions started to be asked about his work.


MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/mit-disavows-doctoral-students-paper-on-ai-productivity-benefits/


MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092
The university says it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

Author of the disputed study was interviewed by The Atlantic earlier this year:
https://youtu.be/wMEBbRHBosk