Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao argues that as AI reshapes the economy, official statistics are struggling to keep pace, leaving trillions in value unmeasured. He explains why statisticians’ judgment is essential for deciding what the numbers actually capture.
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As AI Does More Analytics, What Should Statisticians Do More Of?
AI can generate code, fit competing models, produce visualizations, and summarize results at a speed that would have been difficult to imagine not long ago. For statisticians, this raises an uncomfortable but useful question: As AI does more analytics, what should statisticians do more of?