A rising star in the field of economics has fallen from grace after his highly influential research on the impact of AI in the workplace was called into question, leading to an investigation by MIT.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Aidan Toner-Rodgers, a 27-year-old graduate student at MIT, had taken the economics world by storm with his groundbreaking research on the effects of AI on worker productivity and innovation. His paper, which was rapidly gaining influence and even cited in Congress, offered a surprising and hopeful revelation about the future of work in a high-tech world. However, the promising young economist’s meteoric rise came to an abrupt halt when his mentors, including Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, began to suspect that Toner-Rodgers may have fabricated his res

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