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We tried to automate Epoch
This is a summary of a longer report on our website.
AIs continue to saturate new benchmarks year after year. Yet even as the list of benchmarks where AI has surpassed humans keeps growing, the actual economic impact of AI seems to...
The Epoch Brief - October 23, 2026
Welcome to the Epoch Brief. Here’s what we’ve been working on:
- Can AI automate our own jobs? We gave six AI models 11 realistic tasks drawn from work at Epoch, from designing graphics to drafting short research articles, to see whether...
Can AI automate AI R&D yet?
This is a summary of a longer report on our website.
Leading AI companies say they are building automated AI researchers. Many — including the labs themselves — say that recursively self-improving AIs could be extremely dangerous. B...
The Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026
Welcome back to the Epoch Brief. In this edition, we’re covering:
- Proliferating agents and plummeting costs. Our new report estimates how many AI agents could soon exist in the world: nearly 2 billion at the upper bound, assuming agent...
Hundreds of millions of AI agents are coming. Is there work for them?
This is a summary of a longer report on our website.
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has described a future “country of geniuses in a datacenter”, but could we actually see AI spitting out a country’s worth of labor in the next few years?...
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AI Policy
Longtime policy researcher.
Researcher at Epoch AI
Statistician working on understanding AI Capabilities | Epoch AI | All opinions my own
Jaime Sevilla is the director of Epoch AI. His research is focused on technological forecasting and the trajectory of AI. He has a background in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Observer of the AI Scene
I write about the mechanics of AI progress and the societal impacts of AI.
AI security, cybersecurity
Isabel Juniewicz is a senior researcher at Epoch AI. She was previously a researcher at Open Philanthropy and at Forethought. She has a masters degree in economics and an undergraduate quadruple major in econ, math, stats and computer science.
Comms @ Epoch AI.
I'm a researcher working on AI Safety! Previously, I worked on threat modeling with Forethought, governance at GovAI, ML research, and cognitive science at MIT.
Economics Ph.D. student at Yale, working on AI, Innovation, History, Growth.
Economist at Epoch AI and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Researcher at Epoch AI
A Harvard graduate and former Tarbell Fellow for journalists, I write about AI's growing influence on society.
Economist and researcher at Epoch AI.
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