Alex Imas on AI Agents and Economic Growth

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Alex Imas and Theo Jaffee flank the white and blue headline AI Agents and Growth on black.
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    Alex Imas discusses a model of organizations as collections of complementary skills and considers how AI capabilities and coordination could change competition between firms.

    Alex Imas argues that automation can expand outputWorkflow automation uses software or AI to complete a connected sequence of routine steps with less manual effort. while lowering prices, so a dramatic change in lived experience need not produce equally dramatic measured GDP growth. He discusses demand, market competition and political constraints as conditions affecting the outcome.

    Alex Imas considers how wages might differ across established and new markets, then describes using AI to gather information and explore research across fieldsAI-assisted scientific discovery uses AI to support hypothesis generation, experiment design, analysis, simulation, literature work, and interpretation while researchers retain responsibility. while retaining his own role in framing and writing arguments.

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    Alex Imas and Theo Jaffee flank the white and blue headline AI Agents and Growth on black. With WWW.ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE.VIDEO, 7 November 2026 and duration 23m 11s.

    Alex Imas discusses why greater AI output may not translate directly into explosive measured GDP growth.