What Alex Imas thinks about AGI

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Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.

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1. 4 Jun 2026

   Our readingA country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated.

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   Their wordsSo, I think there is a world where it is concentrated, in which case it's going to be really hard to index AGI. There is another world where it is not It's electricity, then like basically every company has access to AGI. So, you just buy you use buy the index. So, like, you know, Nigeria just needs to buy the index.

   ↗The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammellyoutube.com 29th of 33 in this recording