Google's analysis of 15 million anonymized interactions with its Gemini App, AI Mode, and API finds that AI usage in the workplace remains shallow, with even adopting occupations touching a median of …
A Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis study analyzing nearly 490,000 earnings calls from 5,198 U.S. firms between 2000 and 2025 finds that AI has not yet produced a measurable aggregate productivity bum…
Generative AI has not improved productivity at the level of individual companies or the economy as a whole four years after ChatGPT's release, according to Matt Scherer, a fellow at Open Markets Insti…
Artificial intelligence is exposing a weakness in how modern enterprises measure performance, as traditional metrics like revenue growth and labor productivity fail to capture AI's diffuse, cumulative…
In EFN's second summer special, Katrine Kielos examines the productivity paradox, where new technology like AI is everywhere except in productivity statistics, a puzzle first posed by Nobel laureate R…
Deutsche Bank's global head of macro research Jim Reid warned that AI productivity gains are years away, cautioning that overambitious timelines could lead to market corrections across asset classes, …
A new Boston Consulting Group report found that 42% of surveyed employees saved eight hours per week using AI, but 66% received little to no guidance on how to use that time, with half failing to appl…
A new economic measurement problem called "AI Dark Output" threatens to obscure the majority of AI-generated economic activity, as national statistics fail to capture value produced by artificial inte…
Economists and technologists are questioning why massive investments in artificial intelligence have not yet produced measurable productivity gains, echoing a similar "productivity paradox" observed w…