Will AI Take Our Jobs? With Alex Imas (Google/University of Chicago)

Alex Imas, director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind and professor at Chicago Booth, examines how frontier AI may reshape work. He treats a job as a bundle of tasks rather than something AI either does or does not do, and argues that the key quantity is how strongly consumer demand responds to falling prices: getting it wrong predicts mass layoffs, while getting it right can predict more hiring. The conversation covers the long history of automation fears and why he thinks blue-collar work may be more exposed than white-collar work.