@ngoldschlag
Very excited our paper on AI scientists is out at NBER (w/ @ProfUfukAkcigit, Craig A. Chikis, and Emin Dinlersoz). We link authors of academic papers to administrative records at the U.S. Census Bureau (via anonymized record linkage) and zoom in on AI scientists. We see dramatic top 1% earnings increases in the private sector, widening the industry-academia gap. This coincides with increased transitions out of academia, particularly among young AI researchers flowing to incumbent firms. After transitioning from academia to industry, researchers on average write fewer papers and issue more patents (relative to similar job switchers within academia).