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@alexolegimas
Director of AGI Economics @GoogleDeepMind. Professor @ChicagoBooth (on leave) AGI Economics Lab: https://www.aleximas.com/agi-economics-lab Opinions are own.
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Google DeepMind’s @alexolegimas announced the essay with Andrew Koh and Shane Legg; its framework separates competence from coordination.
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Thoughtful Lab says the agents’ research and revised predictions appear in live feeds through November 3.
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Anthropic reports 77% repeated an agent’s argument in at least one post-task answer, while only 15% credited the agent.
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A critic says many economists use unhelpful frameworks for understanding AGI; another sees potential in theory built on new assumptions.
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Soumitra Shukla and Alex Imas describe the Luddites as skilled machine users who challenged how employers used automation.
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A user shared a photo link with only the one-word comment 'Based.'
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Ethan Mollick described the bonus as a 10-minute interview giving personalized prompts, ideas and readings based on his book.
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A commenter points to agriculture: more output, but a GDP share they say fell from roughly 40% to 2%.
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The poster says surveyed Anthropic staff's answers imply median annual US GDP growth of 17.1% in 2030 under Anthropic's model.
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A user argues that today’s most capable AI operates like human society, with intelligence rooted in cooperation.
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DeepMind Institute says LLMs handle broad tasks while specialized models support domain-specific work, with scientists managing handoffs.
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In an essay for the Google DeepMind Institute, the authors envision LLMs coordinating specialized tools like AlphaFold.
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David Robinson argues OpenAI’s trial-and-error safety culture is inadequate for increasingly capable AI systems.
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A user quotes NYU Stern professor Aswath Damodaran arguing that AI used as a tool would mean a much smaller market.
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A Nature paper reports watermarked protein binders with comparable binding affinity in laboratory tests. Practical biosecurity uses remain a proposal.
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A team member says the hire would study how AI is changing the economy, work with colleagues and external collaborators, and publish what they find.
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The authors say they reviewed 20-plus papers and datasets. They describe mixed evidence for specific sectors and demographic groups, including early-career hiring in AI-exposed roles.
Technology
Its opening essays explore protections for workers and ways to keep AI reasoning readable, while its directors say full AGI remains ahead.
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Demis Hassabis says the institute is expanding research across disciplines on artificial general intelligence’s potential impact on the economy, science and society.
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The research team says the study draws on 15 million Gemini interactions, an inventory of more than 2,600 specialized AI models and a survey of more than 600 scientists.
