{"slug": "ai-in-gdp", "title": "AI in gdp", "summary": "Quality-adjusted AI production in the United States grew at over 2,000 percent per year in 2024 and 2025, driven by data-center expansion, hardware efficiency, and algorithmic progress. Preliminary estimates place nominal AI GDP at approximately $250 billion in 2025, with quality-adjusted real growth of roughly 2,600 percent annually. The rapid expansion has outpaced existing national statistics, prompting calls for new satellite accounts to prevent a measurement gap from becoming a policy gap.", "body_md": "# AI in gdp\n\n- Quality-adjusted AI production in the United States grew at over 2,000 percent per year in 2024 and 2025, driven by three compounding forces: expanding data-center capacity, hardware efficiency gains, and—the largest of the three—algorithmic progress.\n- Treating the AI sector as a coherent economic entity yields preliminary estimates of nominal AI GDP at approximately $250 billion in 2025, growing at roughly 2,600 percent per year in quality-adjusted real terms.\n- National economic statistics accounts were not designed to track this kind of activity. Statistics agencies should begin developing AI-focused satellite accounts now, before the measurement gap becomes a policy gap.\n\nHere is [much more from Anton Korinek and Patrick McKelvey](https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/2026/where-ai-gdp-statistics). Via the excellent [Samir Varma](https://x.com/samirvarma).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-gdp", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/ai-in-gdp.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ai-in-gdp", "published_at": "2026-05-28 17:19:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-28 17:33:26.320899+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Anton Korinek", "Patrick McKelvey", "Samir Varma", "Peterson Institute for International Economics"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-gdp", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-gdp.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-gdp.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-gdp.jsonld"}}