Large language models are trained to predict the next word in a sequence of text. But Susan Athey, PhD ’95, the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and founding director of the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab, wondered whether the architecture behind LLMs such as ChatGPT could be adapted to predict something else entirely – your next job.

Athey shares how her team used the power of LLMs to forecast career paths, and how this approach opens new possibilities for AI-driven data science.