Thank you Thinkers50. I am deeply honored to receive this recognition.

LBS’s kamalini ramdas is the winner of the INFORMS TIMES Distinguished Speaker Award. She was commended for her variety of innovative projects, her continuing work in poverty and inequality alleviation and her dedication to support future research scholars. ow.ly/YXHK50Q7UIy

🚨🚨 I'm hiring a postdoc w/ expertise in ML/stats for our new Wharton healthcare analytics lab: analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/news/now-hirin… Potential projects incl developing new trial designs, off-policy eval, human-AI interfaces, etc for real-world clinical translation Pls share/RT widely 🙏

During Kenya’s first national COVID-19 curfew, in March 2020, total daily internet browser usage among those who had access to a PC increased by 41 minutes, from Soledad Giardili, Sanjay Jain, Amalia R. Miller, Kamalini Ramdas, and Alp Sungu nber.org/papers/w31997

Episode 76: Soledad Giardili (Soledad Giardili) on Managers and Productivity in the Automobile Industry. Joint with Jon Williams (Jon Williams) and Kamalini Ramdas (kamalini ramdas). Listen now at thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/episo… #EconTwitter

News-based sentiment can help predict GDP growth and Fed policy, from Jules H. van Binsbergen, Svetlana Bryzgalova, Mayukh Mukhopadhyay, and Varun Sharma nber.org/papers/w32026

1/ Amalia Miller UVA Economics, @alpSungu & I find Indian women’s burden increased more w Covid. In our 1000 person sample women’s online job search decreased while men’s increased. (Although overall online time increased for men & women- but more for men). nber.org/papers/w31919

Our paper (with Wajeeha Ahmad , Erik Brynjolfsson, and Chuck Eeseley) on the role of advertisers and platforms in monetizing misinformation is now published in nature! See Erik Brynjolfsson's thread below and link to the paper here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Really excited to see our paper w/pamela mishkin @thankyourniceAi sam manning out today in @sciencemagazine. Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… tl;dr: Studying where LLMs might affect workers, we find that GPTs are GPTs! But what does that mean and how did we do it? 🧵

So proud of Alp Sungu who was back at London Business School, visiting from The Wharton School for his PhD graduation today. We missed you Ali Aouad. Enjoyed working with you both.

Really cool controlled study shows just using GPT-4 for help with math homework results in students using it for a crutch & so they actually learn less as a result More carefully designed prompts, and incorporating teacher expertise, seems to mitigate this & increase engagement.

Our research shows students using books for exam prep did better than those using books + GenAI. Why? They see GenAI as an answer machine, not a learning tool. If AI productivity gains are offset by hampered human capital, it might hurt the labor market. OpenAI #EconTwitter

🚨[AI PAPER]: "Generative AI Can Harm Learning" by Hamsa Bastani, @obastanim, Alp Sungu, Haosen Ge, Ph.D., Özge Kabakcı & Rei Mariman is a must-read for everyone interested in AI. Quotes: "(...) a key question that remains is how generative AI affects how humans learn novel skills,

Generative #artificialintelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize how humans work, however, a key question remains: how does generative #AI affect #learning? Read: spkl.io/60184hbly Subscribe: spkl.io/60194hblJ #AICommunity #AcademicTwitter

Let’s draw a happy junior faculty, on his amazing dean Erika H. James's panel, discussing the future of the country he's been studying for years from a social scientific perspective. 🥳

Pardon the brag but SO excited to see our paper at the top of Hacker News Bot (for like 15 mins). Usually only 15 people read our papers 😅 Osbert Bastani Alp Sungu Haosen Ge, Ph.D. Ozge Rei Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative

When chatbots help students learn less. Interesting study in a Turkish high school that randomly selected classrooms to study math 3 ways: with ChatGPT, with an AI tutor or on their own. hechingerreport.org/kids-chatgpt-w…

Grain subsidies and junk food purchases among low-income individuals - Ali Aouad Ali Aouad (MIT Sloan School of Management), Kamalini Ramdas kamalini ramdas (LondonBusinessSchool), Alp Sungu Alp Sungu (The Wharton School). Read here: ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty…

What's in store for mortgage rates in the wake of the Fed's rate cut? Susan Wachter spoke with ABC News to lead this week's The Wharton School faculty in the news roundup. 1️⃣ Wachter on mortgage rates 2️⃣ Christina Parajon Skinner on the Fed 3️⃣ Ben Keys on home insurance 4️⃣ @AlpSungu on AI in education

One of the biggest studies of dietary restrictions ever conducted in laboratory animals challenges the conventional wisdom about how dietary restriction boosts longevity go.nature.com/3NieZDy