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What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?


Markets for goods, services and financial assets, as well as labour, would be upended

Over the previous 17 centuries global output had expanded by 0.1% a year on average, a rate at which it takes nearly a millennium for production to double. Then spinning jennies started whirring and steam engines began to puff. This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Eureka all day long”

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