PostAGI Podcast

Soubhik Deb and Sreeram Kanan

The AGI debate is the easy part. The harder questions come after. Post AGI is a series of conversations on what AGI actually changes for labour, capital, governance, markets, privacy, and the world that has to live with it.Each episode is a long-form conversation with someone thinking hard about one of those questions: economists, political scientists, cryptographers, and the builders shaping what comes next. Not whether AGI arrives, but who it serves once it does.Hosted by Soubhik Deb and Sreeram Kanan. Powered by Eigen.

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    The productivity boom that leaves workers poorer - Alex Imas | PostAGI Ep.01

    Season 01 of Post AGI begins with economist Alex Imas, the Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Professor of Behavioral Science, Economics and Applied AI at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The AGI debate gets most of the attention, but the harder questions are about what comes after. In this conversation, hosts Soubhik Deb and Sreeram Kannan talk with Alex about what AI actually does to labor, capital, and markets. We get into why "job exposure" misleads almost everyone, why automation may come for physical work before knowledge work, the economy of human-made goods that survives AI, the case against UBI and for broad capital ownership, and whether agents can ever run an economy better than markets. The throughline is one question Alex argues is the only one that matters after AGI: what stays scarce. Recorded while Alex was full-time faculty at the University of Chicago. Chapters: 00:00 Intro04:26 Why "AI exposure" doesn't mean what people think08:55 Which jobs automation actually comes for13:18 The robotic "dark warehouses" being built in China14:27 What happens to the labor market at the extreme16:12 The relational economy and human-made goods21:26 Capital ownership and the AI sovereign wealth fund23:08 The case against UBI26:56 Why disaster is what moves policy30:23 Digital intelligence needs digital institutions36:05 Why verification got harder than production37:01 An agentic layer on everything within 12 months41:14 Will agents become the new companies?45:35 The only question in post-AGI economics: what is scarce?48:02 Are AI agents better delegates than humans?52:40 Can AI run a command economy?55:05 Why markets are the original superintelligence57:01 Does AI need government intervention?1:01:39 The precedent for capital ownership: Intel, Alaska, Norway

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The AGI debate is the easy part. The harder questions come after. Post AGI is a series of conversations on what AGI actually changes for labour, capital, governance, markets, privacy, and the world that has to live with it.Each episode is a long-form conversation with someone thinking hard about one of those questions: economists, political scientists, cryptographers, and the builders shaping what comes next. Not whether AGI arrives, but who it serves once it does.Hosted by Soubhik Deb and Sreeram Kanan. Powered by Eigen.

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