Why AI-Driven Productivity Is a Decade Away in the UK
Economist Diane Coyle dispels the notion that artificial intelligence is a quick fix for the Britain’s productivity problem on this episode of Merryn Talks Money.
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Economist Diane Coyle, currently the Bennett professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge, analyzes artificial intelligence’s potential economic impact—from people’s jobs to their productivity—on this week’s episode of Merryn Talks Money.
“I think we’re still looking at a decade or so before it starts to have a measurable impact on productivity,” she tells host Merryn Somerset Webb. She cites the UK’s need to develop the necessary data centers and obtain the the data needed to deploy AI as a reason for the lag.