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The Trillion-Dollar Problem at the Heart of the AI Boom

Oilprice.com · 1h ago
The Trillion-Dollar Problem at the Heart of the AI Boom

Take your pick of alarmist projections about the future of the global economy from top tech leaders. Monzo’s founder, Tom Blomfield, reckons unemployment will surge over the next five years as more and more human output is replaced by AI. Elon Musk reckons it will be near 100 per cent in a decade. But projections are one thing. What is actually happening on the ground right now? I’ve been sent some fascinating data on AI spend by Capital on Tap, one of the UK’s biggest SME lenders. The firm tracks spending patterns among…

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