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Luis Aranda

Senior Economist - OECD

Working groupExpert Group on AI Incidents
Stakeholder TypeIntergovernmental
OECD Secretariat
ONE AI Member
AI Wonk contributor

Luis Aranda is a Senior Economist in Artificial Intelligence at the OECD, which he joined in 2017. In this role, Luis has contributed to the scoping of the OECD AI Principles and the creation of the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and its network of experts. Prior to the OECD, Luis served as a Strategist and Business Program Manager at Microsoft. Luis holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering, a Master’s in Applied Mathematics, and a PhD in Economics.

Luis Aranda's publications

AI openness: Balancing innovation, transparency and risk in open-weight models
Intergovernmental

AI openness: Balancing innovation, transparency and risk in open-weight models

by Luis Aranda, Karine Perset

In August 2025, OpenAI announced GPT-OSS, a family of open-weight models that provide public access to the trained parameters of a frontier-level AI system. This gives a new sense of urgency to the de...

August 28, 2025 — clock6 min read

Name it to tame it: Defining AI incidents and hazards
Intergovernmental

Name it to tame it: Defining AI incidents and hazards

by Luis Aranda, Karine Perset

Complete and accurate definitions of AI incidents and hazards should capture all aspects of harm.

May 17, 2024 — clock5 min read

UK and OECD.AI come together to give AI actors a valuable resource for trustworthy AI
Government

UK and OECD.AI come together to give AI actors a valuable resource for trustworthy AI

by Luis Aranda, James Scott

Case studies from the UK’s Portfolio will be the OECD’s Catalogue to create a more complete resource.

April 11, 2024 — clock3 min read

Google search terms can say a lot about how countries use artificial intelligence
Intergovernmental

Google search terms can say a lot about how countries use artificial intelligence

by Luis Aranda, Jacqueline Lessoff

OECD.AI extracts search data from Google Trends to identify trending topics in countries and regions around the world. 

September 29, 2022 — clock6 min read

How people are using GenAI chatbots: Evidence from web traffic data
Intergovernmental

How people are using GenAI chatbots: Evidence from web traffic data

by Jeff Mollins, Clemence Descubes, Luis Aranda, Sara Rendtorff-Smith

New OECD analysis reveals how people use GenAI chatbots across countries and demographics, using web traffic data from Similarweb.

June 30, 2026 — clock10 min read

Can we create a clear understanding of what agentic AI is and does?
Intergovernmental

Can we create a clear understanding of what agentic AI is and does?

by Sara Rendtorff-Smith, Vincent Corruble, Francesca Rossi, Luis Aranda, Kasumi Sugimoto

AI agents and agentic AI based on large language models are becoming more autonomous and capable of interacting with both physical and virtual environments. As the capabilities of these AI systems gro...

March 3, 2026 — clock4 min read

Introducing the OECD.AI Policy Navigator
Intergovernmental

Introducing the OECD.AI Policy Navigator

by Eunseo Dana Choi, Luis Aranda

The Policy Navigator simplifies the process of tracking and submitting AI policy information, while dramatically increasing coverage and usability.

July 10, 2025 — clock2 min read

From deepfake scams to biased AI: How incident reporting can help us keep ahead of AI’s harms
Intergovernmental

From deepfake scams to biased AI: How incident reporting can help us keep ahead of AI’s harms

by Bénédicte Rispal, Luis Aranda, John Leo Tarver, Karine Perset

If we can understand the origins of AI incidents, we have a greater chance of devising effective responses.

March 4, 2025 — clock5 min read

More partnerships, more insights, better tools: How we shaped AI policy in 2024
Intergovernmental

More partnerships, more insights, better tools: How we shaped AI policy in 2024

by Karine Perset, Luis Aranda

2024 saw remarkable progress in AI policy and governance, including our integrated partnership with GPAI and OECD countries.

January 20, 2025 — clock4 min read

2023 LinkedIn data on OECD.AI:  Definitions for AI occupations are more specific, women in more AI jobs as career transitions to AI grow 
Business

2023 LinkedIn data on OECD.AI:  Definitions for AI occupations are more specific, women in more AI jobs as career transitions to AI grow 

by Rosie Hood, Bénédicte Rispal, Lucia Russo, Luis Aranda

As AI evolves, so must AI occupations and associated skills.

October 24, 2024 — clock7 min read

Artificially Inequitable? AI and closing the gender gap
Intergovernmental

Artificially Inequitable? AI and closing the gender gap

by Celine Caira, Lucia Russo, Luis Aranda

AI can serve as a tool for women’s economic empowerment but it can be a double-edged sword.

March 8, 2023 — clock7 min read

Data from tech and social platforms underline the success of India’s AI upskilling policies
Intergovernmental

Data from tech and social platforms underline the success of India’s AI upskilling policies

by Jacqueline Lessoff, Besher Massri, Luis Aranda

Data from Stack Overflow, GitHub and LinkedIn tell a story of success for India’s AI upskilling policies.

February 1, 2023 — clock5 min read

Luis Aranda's videos

OECD.AI live data about AI jobs and skills and more

OECD.AI live data about AI jobs and skills and more

February 12, 2021–clock4 mins

Luis Aranda's documents

Intergovernmental

Los efectos de la IA en la vida laboral de las mujeres

March 17, 2022

Intergovernmental

Les effets de l’IA sur la vie professionnelle des femmes

March 17, 2022

Intergovernmental

The effects of AI on the working lives of women

March 17, 2022

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