Transformative AI Economist Role

Join CARMA's Geostrategic Dynamics team as a Senior Economist to investigate the transformative effects of advanced AI on global economic systems. This role offers significant intellectual autonomy and the opportunity to model and analyze how AI-driven shifts could impact labor, economic stability, power concentration, and overall living standards. Collaborate with interdisciplinary experts and help shape actionable insights for policymakers and stakeholders, contributing to the mission of lowering systemic risks from transformative AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop economic models to anticipate and assess systemic risks posed by advanced AI systems.
• Build scenarios exploring economic disruptions such as labor displacement, deflation, and market concentration.
• Analyze how AI-driven productivity changes could influence inequality and economic structures.
• Identify early warning indicators of instability, financial shocks, and declining living standards.
• Present complex economic risk analyses to policymakers, multilateral institutions, and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to integrate economic perspectives into broader AI safety research.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• PhD (preferred) or advanced degree in Economics, with expertise in labor and international economics.
• Demonstrated ability to rethink traditional economic paradigms in response to AI-driven disruptions.
• Strong research record and publication history in systemic economic risk analysis.
• Excellent communication skills for translating complex concepts to non-specialist audiences.
• Comfort with uncertainty and limited data in forecasting novel economic phenomena.
• Experience with econometrics, quantitative methods, and coding (Python, R, or Rust) is a plus.
• Familiarity with US/EU policy landscapes and international relations.
• Systems thinking to identify interdependencies among economic factors.
• Experience in scenario planning, macroprudential analysis, or policy contexts preferred.
• Understanding of AI capabilities and their potential impacts on economic systems.