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Alexander Oettl

Economist, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Signed the letter · Academia · United States

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Professor of Organization & Management at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, where he holds a chair in entrepreneurship, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Scheller College of Business from 2009 to 2026. PhD from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. His research covers the economics of innovation — how ideas are produced and spread across people, firms, and regions — including how artificial intelligence affects scientific research, with work including 'Artificial intelligence and scientific discovery: a model of prioritized search' and 'Roads and Innovation'. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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13 works in the co-authorship map · 1,659 citations across them

Sources

  1. Alexander Oettl — homepage (Goizueta chair, Emory, NBER research associate)
  2. Alexander Oettl | NBER (Emory University, Goizueta Business School)
  3. Alexander Oettl LinkedIn post on leaving Georgia Tech after 17 years and joining Emory on June 1, 2026
  4. Artificial intelligence and scientific discovery: a model of prioritized search
  5. Roads and Innovation
  6. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

7 co-authors on the map · PageRank #60 of 400 · bridge #61 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Economics of prediction and innovation.

Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Alexander Oettl on the map

Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? leans disagree

Co-authored task-based models in which AI enhances worker productivity without automating tasks, citing evidence that contemporary AI is more often used to augment workers than to replace them.

Evidence

  1. Enhancing Worker Productivity Without Automating Tasks: A Different Approach to AI and the Task-Based Model

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

Will AI widen inequality? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Should governments act on AI now? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

How fast will the impact arrive? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Selected work

Writes with

Ajay Agrawal (6), John McHale (4), Alberto Galasso (2), Christian Catalini (2), Iain Cockburn (1), Sampsa Samila (1), Sharique Hasan (1)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (7 of 7 shown).

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