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Director of AGI Economics at Google DeepMind and professor of economics and applied AI at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
AI abundance can only happen if technological advances are coupled with major policy shifts. Keeping current policy constant, AGI will lead to an economic dystopia where, if anything, you should be saving more because your kids won’t be able to earn a living from their labor.
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Alex Imas, Ghosts of Electricity Substack note, January 27, 2026.
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