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Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?

aired Jun 04, 2026 · 76.0m
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Summary

Today, I'm chatting with Alex Emas, who is director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind and professor of economics at University of Chicago, and Phil Trammell, who is head of economics at EPOC and research scholar at Stanford.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, right, it's, including: In general, in this interview, what I want to understand is what economics tells us about what we can expect in a world with more and more automation, more and more advanced AI, wh.

Key takeaways
  1. 01So in a world where AI can physically do anything humans can do, you know, there's this whole machine economy where they're like building factories and doing research and coming up
  2. 02Let's write down an economic model of what happened
  3. 03Or you can start to write down a model to say, hey, what if labor share just stays the same?
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