S1E47 - Will AI Take Our Jobs? With Alex Imas (Google/University of Chicago)

Will AI take our jobs? We put the question to Alex Imas, the new Director of AGI Economics at Google DeepMind and a professor at Chicago Booth, whose entire job now is studying how frontier AI reshapes the economy. His short answer: probably some of them, but the popular story is mostly wrong about which jobs and how fast.

Alex makes the case that a job is a bundle of tasks, not a single thing AI either does or doesn't do, and that the number of people who should actually care about is how much consumer demand...