Bank of England Pours Cold Water on the AI Productivity Boom
NISMO1968 · reddit · 2026-11-07
According to The Register, the Bank of England expressed skepticism about the AI-driven productivity boom narrative, noting there is insufficient hard evidence that AI has yet delivered meaningful economy-wide productivity gains — a notably cautious stance against prevailing optimism.
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