{
  "id": 3166021,
  "title": "The Measurement Revolution? Credible Measurement and Inference in the Age of AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/the-measurement-revolution-credible-measurement-and-inference-in-the",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-24T17:28:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23524v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming measurement in economics. AI models convert unstructured data, such as text and images, into structured variables at low cost, making previously prohibitive measurement feasible at scale. This shifts the bottleneck from finding any scalable measure of a phenomenon to choosing among many plausible ones, which may support different empirical conclusions.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}