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BofA: AI productivity gains to be 10x larger than electricity, internet

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Bank of America's research team suggests that AI's current aggregate productivity impact on the global economy is only 0.1%, despite significant task-level gains in areas like software development and customer support. They attribute this gap to the fact that only a fraction of AI-transformable tasks are currently cost-effective to automate. However, BofA projects that AI could eventually deliver productivity gains ten times larger than previous innovations like electricity or the internet, following a J-curve pattern of delayed impact followed by rapid acceleration. AI

IMPACT Bank of America projects AI could eventually deliver productivity gains ten times larger than previous innovations, despite current minimal economic impact.

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