US productivity grows 2% y/y as analyst defends AI: enterprise adoption still early innings
BenBajarin · x · 2026-11-06
A viral datapoint notes US productivity grew 2% y/y — right in line with the post-war average — questioning AI's productivity promise. Analyst Ben Bajarin counters that scaled enterprise AI adoption is still "very early innings" everywhere on the planet, so macro data lags the technology. A representative exchange in the ongoing AI-economics debate.
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