Introducing the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange
OpenAI Blog · 2026-06-08
OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange, a structured program giving selected external researchers governed access to OpenAI tools and data to produce independent empirical research on AI's economic impacts.
Extraction
Topics: ai-economicsopenai-research-programlabor-economicsai-policy
Claims
- OpenAI is launching the Economic Research Exchange to fund and support external empirical research on AI's economic effects.
- Selected researchers will receive structured, privacy-protected access to OpenAI tools and datasets beyond what traditional datasets offer.
- The program prioritizes applied causal inference, labor economics, productivity, education, inequality, and related fields.
- Applications close July 5, 2026, with selected researchers notified by July 31, 2026.
- The Exchange builds on OpenAI's existing OpenAI Signals measurement initiative.
Key quotes
AI is reshaping how people work, how businesses operate, and how ideas are created and shared. Understanding those changes will require more than anecdotes.
The goal is to enable rigorous and credible research that would extend beyond traditional datasets alone, by utilizing OpenAI Tools and datasets.
By supporting a portfolio of external research collaborations, we hope to expand the evidence base available to researchers, policymakers, businesses, and the public as they navigate a period of rapid technological change.