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Google's James Manyika: 'The Productivity Gains From AI Are Not Guaranteed'

Google executive James Manyika has warned that AI's impact on productivity is not guaranteed [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled], despite predictions of trillion-dollar economic potential. From the report: "Right now, everyone from my old colleagues at McKinsey Global Institute to Goldman Sac...

Google executive James Manyika has warned that AI's impact on productivity is not guaranteed[Editor's note: the link may be paywalled], despite predictions of trillion-dollar economic potential. From the report:"Right now, everyone from my old colleagues at McKinsey Global Institute to Goldman Sachs are putting out these extraordinary economic potential numbers -- in the trillions -- [but] it's going to take a whole bunch of actions, innovations, investments, even enabling policy ...The productivity gains are not guaranteed. Even if the entire tech sector adopted it 100 per cent, it doesn't matter from a labour productivity standpoint."

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