AI Could Lift European Productivity 1% in Five Years, But Value May Flow Abroad
TansuYegen · x · 2026-09-21
Tansu Yegen argues AI could add roughly 1% to European productivity within five years — meaningful, but Europe's bigger challenge is capturing the value itself. If models, chips, and cloud infrastructure all come from elsewhere, Europe could become highly productive with AI while most of the economics flow abroad.
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