AI could be the help the economy desperately needs, not the threat economists fear.
Joao Gomes, Professor of Finance and Vice Dean of Research at the Wharton School, explains why demographics, productivity, and the US competition with China make the AI boom too important to slow down. He argues that being first to build the dominant AI platforms could have enormous economic consequences.
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