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What If AI Made the Economy Smaller?

Every prediction about advanced AI says the economy is going to boom. Economists say moderate growth. Tech CEOs say explosive growth. Nobody says negative growth.

But what if they're all wrong? What if the thing that makes AI so powerful — replacing human work — is also the thing that breaks the economy's engine?

That's the question economist Alex Imas decided to take seriously. And the answer is more unsettling than you'd think.