If AI investment pulled back, the capital and resources involved would shift to other productive uses rather than sit idle.

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• The AI investment splurge will not be the biggest investment boom in U.S. history as a percentage of GDP. PKPaul Krugman29 Oct 2026
• The long trend of making it easier for ordinary people to index more of the economy will resume, and AI itself will help by cutting the cost of going public. PTPhil Trammell4 Jun 2026
• If the existence of AI forces everyone to spend a lot more just to keep doing the things they were doing before, that's a net negative for productivity even if the big labs make trillions in revenue. NSNoah Smith26 Oct 2026
• An AI-caused recession requires the owners of capital to hit a hard ceiling on spending and then refuse to invest the rest, which is a very improbable combination. AIAlex Imas4 Jun 2026
• The AI boom will depress the demand for labor in the economy. PKPaul Krugman18 Oct 2026

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