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Explorations into the economics of AI and innovation. Seth Benzell and Andrey Fradkin discuss academic papers and essays at the intersection of economics and technology. empiricrafting.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchExplorations into the economics of AI and innovation. Seth Benzell and Andrey Fradkin discuss academic papers and essays at the intersection of economics and technology.
Justified Posteriors is hosted by Seth Benzell and Andrey Fradkin. The show has published 48 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Kevin Bryan on Bottlenecks, AI in China, and What Economists Should Actually Be Working On" (1 June 2026, 97 minutes), "Seb Krier on AGI, the Coasean Singularity, and EDM" (19 May 2026, 83 minutes), and "Avi Goldfarb on Prediction Machines, O-Ring Tasks, and How AI is Reshaping Economics" (4 May 2026, 81 minutes).
Justified Posteriors publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 71 minutes across 48 episodes.
Booking probability for Justified Posteriors is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Justified Posteriors requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Justified Posteriors's contact route on record: public web form.
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Seth Benzell and Andrey Fradkin hosts Justified Posteriors, a business podcast with 48 episodes published.
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<p>This week we to with Kevin Bryan, Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School, author of the legendary economics blog A Fine Theorem, co-founder of the ed-tech startup All Day TA, and...
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<p>Seb Krier on AGI, Scaffolding, and Coasean Bargaining at Scale</p><p>In this episode of Justified Posteriors, we welcome Seb Krier — policy lead for AGI at Google DeepMind and excellent Twitter poster. Speaking in...
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<p>This week, we’re joined by Avi Goldfarb, one of the leading economists of artificial intelligence and co-author of Prediction Machines. Avi has been thinking seriously about AI economics long before the ChatGPT...
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Get full access to Justified Posteriors at empiricrafting.substack.com/subscribe<br/><br/><p>This week, instead of reviewing a recent paper on AI, we go back to a 1993 classic: Michael Kremer’s “The O-Ring Theory of...
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<p>This week, instead of reviewing an economics paper, we reviewed a work of philosophy—perhaps the most important one of this young millennium so far. Anthropic published its new constitution for Claude in January...
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<p>University of Chicago behavioral economist Alex Imas joins us for a conversation on AI, economic growth, behavioral economics, and the future of science. We discuss whether AI could ever lead to negative growth, why...
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<p>In this episode, Seth and Andrey break down AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books? by Imke Reimers and Joel Waldfogel, presented at the NBER Digital...
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<p>We sit down with prominent blogger and economist Noah Smith to dig into the disconnect between AI hype and current macroeconomic reality. The central puzzle: if a “god machine” driving 20% annual GDP growth is truly...
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<p>In this week’s episode of Justified Posteriors, we interview TAI expert and friend of the show Basil Halperin of the University of Virginia. There Basil is doing some of the most fascinating work on the economics of...
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<p>We discuss “Voice in AI Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews” by Brian Jabarian and Luca Henkel. The paper examines a randomized experiment with call center job applicants in the Philippines...
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<p>Anecdotes of AI Supercharged Science: Justified Posteriors reads “Early Science Acceleration Experiments with GPT-5”</p><p>In this episode, Seth and Andrey break down OpenAI’s report, Early Science Acceleration...
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<p>In this episode, we sit down with Ben Golub, economist at Northwestern University, to talk about what happens when AI meets academic research, social learning, and network theory.</p><p>We start with Ben’s startup...
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<p>Seth and Andrey are back to evaluating an AI evaluation, this time discussing METR’s paper “Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks.” The paper’s central claim is that the “effective horizon” of AI agents—the...
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<p>We continue our conversation with Columbia professor Bo Cowgill. We start with a detour through Roman Jakobson’s six functions of language (plus two bonus functions Seth insists on adding: performative and...
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<p>In this episode, we brought on our friend Bo Cowgill, to dissect his forthcoming Management Science paper, Does AI Cheapen Talk? The core question is one economists have been circling since Spence drew a line on the...
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<p>In this episode of Justified Posteriors podcast, Seth and Andrey discuss “GDPVal” a new set of AI evaluations, really a novel approach to AI evaluation, from OpenAI. The metric is debuted in a new OpenAI paper, “GDP...
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<p>In this episode, Seth Benzell and Andrey Fradkin read “We Won’t Be Missed: Work and Growth in the AGI World” by Pascual Restrepo (Yale) to understand what how AGI will change work in the long run. A common metaphor...
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<p>Economists generally see AI as a production technology, or input into production. But maybe AI is actually more impactful as unlocking a new way of organizing society. Finish this story: </p><p>* The printing press...
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<p>Many of today’s thinkers and journalists worry that AI models are eating their lunch: hoovering up these authors’ best ideas and giving them away for free or nearly free. Beyond fairness, there is a worry that these...
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<p>In our first ever EMERGENCY PODCAST, co-host Seth Benzell is summoned out of paternity leave by Andrey Fradkin to discuss the AI automation paper that’s making headlines around the world. The paper is Canaries in the...
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Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, Professor of Marketing at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab, faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute and the Schwartz-Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Research Associate at the National Bureau, University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Professor of Behavioral Science, Economics and Applied AI, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Senior Director of NLP Research at Ai2, Colorado Film and Video Association
professor and director of the Digital Economy Lab, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered A.I.
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