Kevin A. Bryan

@Afinetheorem

Assoc. Prof. of Strategy, U Toronto Rotman | Chief Economist, CDL Toronto | Co-Founder, AllDayTA | Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps (especially now)

Toronto, ON, Canada

kevinbryanecon.com

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Kevin A. Bryan
@Afinetheorem
12h
People believe this and believe everywhere is "overtouristed" and that is only because they haven't bothered to try to go to the 99% of the world that does not fit this description. "Skill issue", as the kids say.
signüll
@signulll
17h
modern travel is increasingly flying 10 hours to experience a slightly different version of the same globally optimized lifestyle. same third wave coffee. same natural wine bar. same brutalist menu. same sourdough. same beige hotel. same tasteful ceramics. same instagram
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Kevin A. Bryan
@Afinetheorem
12h
I am shocked, shocked to find out that a productivity-enhancing, investment-supporting technology is good for workers. (Knowing nothing else this should be your prior, because this is how productivity in competitive markets almost always works.)
Rafael Domenech | @BBVAResearch & @UV_EG
@rdomenechv
20h
The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here According to @TheEconomist, AI is actually proving to be a net job creator in the US, easily generating over 1M new positions (from data center construction to AI engineering) to offset back-office layoffs. While
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Kevin A. Bryan
@Afinetheorem
19h
Really enjoy this from Sean - many good things about Carney (the focus on growth), but as with the EU (and Trumpism!), "policy adventurism" where state thinks 10 people plus a bureaucracy will cause growth is just totally wrong. The best "investment policy": returns to investors!
The Hub
@TheHubCanada
Sep 5
.@Sean_Speer: The cracks are showing in Carney’s economic agenda. thehub.ca/2026/09/04/the…
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Kevin A. Bryan
@Afinetheorem
20h
Perhaps if monitoring/alignment were required for any served frontier model "to the best commercially available level", you can induce a ton of demand for firms to serve this need. Can imagine many ways regulation can shape market demand here without totally killing innovation.
Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_
22h
Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist OpenAI: 'Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared
Kevin A. Bryan
@Afinetheorem
20h
Glad to see this prescient article out. I was lucky enough to be the discussant - one idea I would stress is that impact of agents is going to be highly contingent on non-technical organizational decisions (just as the diffusion of the corporate firm was): kevinbryanecon.com/2025NBERHadfie…
Andrew Koh
@andrewjkoh
Sep 6
Gillian and I wrote this chapter in mid-2025 but the technology wasn't quite there yet so we were forced to do some 'sci fi economics'. We now have enormously powerful AI agents but there are still many open questions. Here's a few: