https://aifaultline.com/authors/priya-mondal/New papers by Priya Mondal in the AI Fault Line guide, and news naming them. https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-31235-osf-io-tmjxw-v1/https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-31235-osf-io-tmjxw-v1/Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Using an eight-year OECD country panel and a seemingly-unrelated-regressions approach, finds support for the AI productivity J-curve (slow initial gains from AI patents and robot installations followed by catch-up as organizations adapt), while also showing democratic political systems tend to delay environmental regulation in favor of near-term growth. It links two normally separate strands of the AI debate — productivity diffusion lags and AI's environmental/carbon trade-offs — in one empirical panel.