AI Research Fund Grants: Economics of AI
Mercor · San Francisco · Mexico | Mexico City · New York City · London
Applied AIonsite$5000k
At a glance
Highlights
- Fund research measuring AI's impact on labor, wages and employment outcomes.
- Study human-AI collaboration and productivity gains in real-world work.
- Explore enterprise AI adoption patterns and returns inside organizations.
What they offer
- Funding for expert time via Mercor platform
- Funding for researcher hours
- API cost coverage
- Stipends for event and conference attendance
Ideal candidate
Economics or interdisciplinary researcher passionate about AI's labor impact, with demonstrated expertise and specific methods for measuring productivity and adoption in real-world settings.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in the economics of AI research area
- Specific methods, systems and evaluation criteria engaging existing literature
- Clearly differentiated angle that does not duplicate existing work
- hiring process
- Submit an Expression of Interest stating budget tier; review scrutiny scales with ask size.
Lab profile
About Mercor
AI data company organizing human expertise to train frontier models for the AI economy.
What they build
- APEX benchmark family
- Mercor Enterprise
- Human expertise training data platform
Known for
- Massive domain-expert network
- Frontier model training infrastructure
- Real-world professional work evaluation
Key facts
- Millions of domain experts on platform
- Pays over $4M per day to experts
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