Economists Deploy Agentic AI

Economists are beginning to use agentic (autonomous, multi‑step) AI tools to generate slides, run analyses, and automate routine research tasks, turning domain expertise into a modular instruction set for agents. That adoption both raises productivity and creates new trust and verification questions for academic and policy outputs. — If professionals like economists normalize agentic AI, it accelerates institutional reliance on autonomous systems and forces new norms for accountability, attribution, and evidence in policy debates.