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Whether AI's gains are widely shared turns on whether it is like electricity, where the users captured the benefit, or like social media, where the platform did.

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social media Feeds and the platforms that rank them: what an algorithm decides is important, and what curating your own sources costs.

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  1. Alex Imas Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth
    because a lot with electricity, a lot of the downstream benefits actually came to like the users of the electricity rather than the rather than the actual entity producing the electricity. On the other hand, with social media, it was the opposite case, right? Social media, you know, it was everywhere. Everybody uses social media, but the rents went to the platform.

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