Writing & Thinking with AI Assistance

This post was either an anonymous submission of an interesting paper or was written by a student; full credit remains with the author (linked).

Part of a series on AI tools for empirical research, this installment turns from data analysis to writing itself. The author, an economist, works through the tension between writing as a tool for thinking and the risk of "cognitive offloading" when researchers hand vague ideas to an LLM and let it do the intellectual work.