OpenAI has launched a new platform called the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange to support external research on the economic impacts of AI.

Selected researchers will conduct structured, project-based collaborations with OpenAI Economic Research to examine the effects of AI on workers, firms, institutions, and broader economic trends.

The company is seeking proposals that address key questions about AI’s economic effects. According to OpenAI, submissions should explain how privacy-protected use of its tools and approved datasets can help answer those questions while ensuring responsible data use and user privacy.

OpenAI welcomes proposals from researchers with strong empirical skills and expertise in areas such as labor economics, productivity, education, entrepreneurship, public finance, regional economics, development, and inequality, among other related fields. Applications will be evaluated based on methodological rigor, feasibility, research objectives, and their potential to produce credible findings.

Selected projects will have clearly defined goals, timelines, governance structures, milestones, data-governance requirements, and review processes. The initiative builds on OpenAI’s broader efforts to measure AI’s societal and economic effects, including OpenAI Signals.

Applications are open through July 5, 2026. OpenAI said it will review submissions and notify selected researchers by July 31, 2026.

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