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102 Foreign Aff. 70 (2023)
The Coming AI Economic Revolution: Can Artificial Intelligence Reverse the Productivity Slowdown?

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         'Ihe Coming Al


 Economic Revolution




      Can Artificial Intelligence Reverse

           the  Productivity Slowdown?

        JAMES   MANYIKA AND MICHAEL SPENCE






In June   2023, a study of the economic potential of generative artificial
    intelligence estimated that the technology could add more than $4
    trillion dollars annually to the global economy. This would be on top
of the $11 trillion that nongenerative Ai and other forms of automation
could contribute.These are enormous numbers: by comparison, the entire
German  economy-the   world's fourth largest-is worth about $4 tril-
lion. According to the study, produced by the McKinsey Global Institute,
this astonishing impact will come largely from gains in productivity.
   At least in the near term, such exuberant projections will likely
outstrip reality. Numerous technological, process-related, and organi-
zational hurdles, as well as industry dynamics, stand in the way of an



JAMES MANYIKA  is Senior Vice President and President of Research, Technology, and
Society at Google-Alphabet, a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Human-Centered
Artificial Intelligence Institute, and Chairman Emeritus at McKinsey Global Institute.
MICHAEL  SPENCE, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a Senior Fellow at
the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.


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