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What Alex Imas thinks about energy

@alex-imas · 18 positions · 0 changes of mind

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

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Alex Imas has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingWhether 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.

    Their wordsbecause 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.

    ↗The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammellyoutube.com 28th of 33 in this recording

    social media

  3. 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.

    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

    AGI