Generative AI Could Solve the Productivity Paradox

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The ability of artificial intelligence to do certain tasks, such as writing college essays and generating fake Drake songs, is well-known. Less understood is the technology’s impact on one of the biggest conundrums of modern economics: Why worker output isn’t higher despite the technological revolution we’re all clearly living through.