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Alex Imas

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Yeah.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So health is going to be one of those things.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But the thing to keep in mind is that people are going to be richer.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Right.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Theoretically.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Theoretically.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Theoretically.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

I would say not that confident.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

There's several scenarios out there.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And the thing that I feel like a lot of economists and just people in general I think aren't talking enough about is speed.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Yeah, talk about that.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

If things are fast, we need public policy.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

We need, the new jobs aren't gonna come fast enough.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Training isn't gonna happen fast enough.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Where you're gonna get, things are gonna get fully automated very quickly and people are gonna become unemployed.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

There's not gonna be enough time in the economy to see that pretty little graph of agriculture shrinking and services increasing.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

That took a long time, right?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

This is decades.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

If we're on the order of like years or like five years, six years, we're not gonna have time to see that pretty little graph.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

We are going to need to think about how do we support the people who are becoming unemployed.