Anson Ho is a senior researcher at Epoch AI. His Epoch author biography describes his interest as "helping develop a more rigorous understanding of future developments in AI and its societal impacts" (The Nvidia-sized hole in US GDP statistics (Epoch AI, August 2026)).
Research
- Software progress. "The Least Understood Driver of AI Progress," an Epoch Gradient Updates analysis of the rate at which the compute needed to reach a given capability falls (The Least Understood Driver of AI Progress).
- Benchmark human baselines. "Is AI already superhuman on FrontierMath?" (May 23, 2025), reporting a human-baseline competition at MIT (Is AI already superhuman on FrontierMath? (Anson Ho, Epoch AI, 2025)).
- Cross-benchmark capability scale. Lead author, with Jean-Stanislas Denain, David Atanasov, Samuel Albanie and Rohin Shah, of "A Rosetta Stone for AI Benchmarks," the method behind the Epoch Capabilities Index (A Rosetta Stone for AI Benchmarks — Ho, Denain, Atanasov, Albanie, Shah (Epoch AI / Google DeepMind, 2025)).
- AI R&D automation. Co-author with JS Denain and Joe Kwon of "Toward an O\*NET for AI R&D" (June 17, 2026) (Source: epochai.substack.com).
- National accounts. Co-author, with Isabel Juniewicz, Daniel Carey and Phil Trammell, of "The Nvidia-sized hole in US GDP statistics" (August 24, 2026), which estimates that US GDP growth over the prior year was underestimated by about 0.3 percentage points because fabless chipmakers' value-add is not recorded as exports (The Nvidia-sized hole in US GDP statistics (Epoch AI, August 2026)).
Relationships
- related: Epoch AI — employer
- related: The Least Understood Driver of AI Progress, Is AI already superhuman on FrontierMath? (Anson Ho, Epoch AI, 2025), A Rosetta Stone for AI Benchmarks — Ho, Denain, Atanasov, Albanie, Shah (Epoch AI / Google DeepMind, 2025), The Nvidia-sized hole in US GDP statistics (Epoch AI, August 2026) — authored
- related: Phil Trammell, Rohin Shah — co-authors