Maximilian Kasy
@maxkasy.bsky.social
Econ prof at Oxford.
Machine learning, politics, econometrics, inequality, random reading recs.
maxkasy.github.io/home/
Machine learning, politics, econometrics, inequality, random reading recs.
maxkasy.github.io/home/
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Maximilian Kasy
@maxkasy.bsky.social
· Jun 5
The Means of Prediction
An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms,…
press.uchicago.edu
💥 📚 Next step on the book journey:📚💥
"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!!!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!!!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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What is the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and economics?
What are promising avenues for research at this intersection?
I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Thoughts and comments welcome!
What are promising avenues for research at this intersection?
I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Thoughts and comments welcome!
maxkasy.github.io
December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What is the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and economics?
What are promising avenues for research at this intersection?
I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Thoughts and comments welcome!
What are promising avenues for research at this intersection?
I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Thoughts and comments welcome!
What is the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and economics?
What are promising avenues for research at this intersection?
I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Thoughts and comments welcome!
What are promising avenues for research at this intersection?
I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Thoughts and comments welcome!
maxkasy.github.io
December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What is the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and economics?
What are promising avenues for research at this intersection?
I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Thoughts and comments welcome!
What are promising avenues for research at this intersection?
I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions:
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Thoughts and comments welcome!
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS.
I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS.
I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
🎄 📕 Looking for a last-minute gift for the AI-curious or AI-worried person in your life? 📕🎄
Consider "The means of prediction"!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Consider "The means of prediction"!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
🎄 📕 Looking for a last-minute gift for the AI-curious or AI-worried person in your life? 📕🎄
Consider "The means of prediction"!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Consider "The means of prediction"!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
Eye scans, licence plate readers, spyware: technology used to catch criminals and terrorists is being repurposed to fulfil Trump's pledge to deport 1mn undocumented migrants this year. Critics fear it’s the thin end of the authoritarian wedge.
An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Eye scans, licence plate readers, spyware: technology used to catch criminals and terrorists is being repurposed to fulfil Trump's pledge to deport 1mn undocumented migrants this year. Critics fear it’s the thin end of the authoritarian wedge.
An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
One more round of booktalks on “The means of prediction:”
Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix):
matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim...
Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive):
events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka...
Dec 5 UC Davis (econ).
Come by if you are in the Bay Area!
Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix):
matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim...
Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive):
events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka...
Dec 5 UC Davis (econ).
Come by if you are in the Bay Area!
Maximilian Kasy: "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" - Social Science Matrix
Join us on December 2, 2025 at 4:00pm for a talk by Maximilian Kasy, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, presenting his book "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who…
matrix.berkeley.edu
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One more round of booktalks on “The means of prediction:”
Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix):
matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim...
Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive):
events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka...
Dec 5 UC Davis (econ).
Come by if you are in the Bay Area!
Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix):
matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim...
Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive):
events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka...
Dec 5 UC Davis (econ).
Come by if you are in the Bay Area!
One more round of booktalks on “The means of prediction:”
Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix):
matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim...
Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive):
events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka...
Dec 5 UC Davis (econ).
Come by if you are in the Bay Area!
Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix):
matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim...
Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive):
events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka...
Dec 5 UC Davis (econ).
Come by if you are in the Bay Area!
Maximilian Kasy: "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" - Social Science Matrix
Join us on December 2, 2025 at 4:00pm for a talk by Maximilian Kasy, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, presenting his book "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who…
matrix.berkeley.edu
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One more round of booktalks on “The means of prediction:”
Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix):
matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim...
Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive):
events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka...
Dec 5 UC Davis (econ).
Come by if you are in the Bay Area!
Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix):
matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim...
Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive):
events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka...
Dec 5 UC Davis (econ).
Come by if you are in the Bay Area!
My colleagues are organizing a workshop on
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
AI and Economics - ICMS
Workshop Template
icms.ac.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My colleagues are organizing a workshop on
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
🕸️ 🔢 Presenting tomorrow at UCL: 🔢 🕸️
"Causal inference on endogenous social network formation"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
@ucleconomics.bsky.social
"Causal inference on endogenous social network formation"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
@ucleconomics.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🕸️ 🔢 Presenting tomorrow at UCL: 🔢 🕸️
"Causal inference on endogenous social network formation"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
@ucleconomics.bsky.social
"Causal inference on endogenous social network formation"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
@ucleconomics.bsky.social
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
Wird Künstliche Intelligenz die Weltherrschaft übernehmen? Darüber müssen wir uns keine Sorgen machen, schreibt der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Oxford-Professor Maximilian Kasy in seinem Buch “The Means of Prediction”. Wohl aber darüber, wer Künstliche Intelligenz für seine Zwecke einsetzen kann:
Künstliche Intelligenz ist nicht das Problem. Das Problem sind die Menschen, die sie beherrschen.
Künstliche Intelligenz ist nicht automatisch böse. Oxford-Ökonom Max Kasy im Gespräch darüber, wie KI einen Nutzen für die Vielen bringt.
www.moment.at
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Wird Künstliche Intelligenz die Weltherrschaft übernehmen? Darüber müssen wir uns keine Sorgen machen, schreibt der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Oxford-Professor Maximilian Kasy in seinem Buch “The Means of Prediction”. Wohl aber darüber, wer Künstliche Intelligenz für seine Zwecke einsetzen kann:
Künstliche Intelligenz: Wie kann KI den Vielen nutzen?
www.moment.at/story/kuenst...
(mein Interview im heutigen @moment.at)
www.moment.at/story/kuenst...
(mein Interview im heutigen @moment.at)
Künstliche Intelligenz ist nicht das Problem. Das Problem sind die Menschen, die sie beherrschen.
Künstliche Intelligenz ist nicht automatisch böse. Oxford-Ökonom Max Kasy im Gespräch darüber, wie KI einen Nutzen für die Vielen bringt.
www.moment.at
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Künstliche Intelligenz: Wie kann KI den Vielen nutzen?
www.moment.at/story/kuenst...
(mein Interview im heutigen @moment.at)
www.moment.at/story/kuenst...
(mein Interview im heutigen @moment.at)
Extract from the introduction of "The Means of Prediction" published on Literary Hub:
lithub.com/why-big-tech...
lithub.com/why-big-tech...
Why Big Tech’s Abuse of Artificial Intelligence Doesn’t Need to Be Inevitable
The story of humans versus machines In the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was released in 1968, a spaceship headed to Jupiter is equipped with an onboard computer named HAL 9000. Over ti…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Extract from the introduction of "The Means of Prediction" published on Literary Hub:
lithub.com/why-big-tech...
lithub.com/why-big-tech...
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
Happy pub day to Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @maxkasy.bsky.social! In this interview, he discusses his new book, The Means of Prediction, which offers a convincing argument for democratic control over AI’s objectives.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/whos-afraid-...
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/whos-afraid-...
Who’s Afraid of AI? Maximilian Kasy Discusses His New Book, The Means of Prediction - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Affiliated Scholar Maximilian Kasy discusses his new book, The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits), which offers a convincing argument for democratic control over AI’s objectiv...
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy pub day to Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @maxkasy.bsky.social! In this interview, he discusses his new book, The Means of Prediction, which offers a convincing argument for democratic control over AI’s objectives.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/whos-afraid-...
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/whos-afraid-...
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
“We might hope that keeping our own data private could protect each of us from unwanted outcomes. But A.I. doesn’t need to know what you have been doing; it only needs to know what people like you have done before,” Maximilian Kasy writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
nyti.ms
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“We might hope that keeping our own data private could protect each of us from unwanted outcomes. But A.I. doesn’t need to know what you have been doing; it only needs to know what people like you have done before,” Maximilian Kasy writes.
Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Reposted by Maximilian Kasy
⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
EJM - Econ Job Market
The automated language-translation service on econjobmarlet.org is provided free by Google Translate, a third party service. Google is wholly responsible for the translation service. Econ Job…
econjobmarket.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
Some lovely first reviews of "The Means of Prediction" are out:
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...
(by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social)
1/n
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...
(by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social)
1/n
The people’s AI? | The Enlightened Economist
The title of Maximilian Kasy’s new book The Means of Prediction cleverly riffs off Marx’s concept of the means of production for th age of AI. These means, Prof Kasy argues, are data, computational…
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Some lovely first reviews of "The Means of Prediction" are out:
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...
(by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social)
1/n
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...
(by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social)
1/n
⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
EJM - Econ Job Market
The automated language-translation service on econjobmarlet.org is provided free by Google Translate, a third party service. Google is wholly responsible for the translation service. Econ Job…
econjobmarket.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social