Alex Imas

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734 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4 Jun

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Odd Lots · Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

One, physical versus just kind of digital, right?

So I think there's a scenario where it can do everything, these sort of cognitive, non-physical tasks, whereas the physical world is completely... Let's just talk about email jobs or computer jobs.

Okay, let's talk about computer jobs.

So I think... I take that scenario pretty seriously.

Okay.

I think...

I haven't seen any data to suggest that the models are slowing down as far as their capabilities.

You know, Mithos was released yesterday or two days ago or something like that.

And if you, we don't have great data on this, but if you look at like where it is on the kind of line of capabilities, it's just on track.

And on track is very, very fast, right?

So the developments are happening very fast.

So as far as like email jobs, I think there is a scenario where pretty much everything is automated.

And then you have to ask, are people going to be moving to the physical jobs?

Or will there be new jobs that we haven't thought about before?

So, you know, if you look back in the 1940s, like, I think more than half of the jobs that we have now didn't exist in 1940.

And so what did the new jobs look like?

I mean, I have a theory.

Please.

It's very similar to the one that you didn't like.

But I'd like to broaden it a little bit.

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