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What the Economy Is Sacrificing to AI

Annie Lowrey · 31 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    The AI build-out is pushing up US GDP, a hard-hat stimulus bigger than the one passed after the Great Recession.

    Their wordsCertainly, AI is pushing up GDP—or, to be precise, the AI build-out is pushing up GDP.

  2. Our reading

    The more resources the US devotes to AI at the expense of other innovation, the more its future depends on that bet paying off.

    Their wordsBut the more resources the country devotes to AI at the expense of other innovations, the more its future depends on that bet paying off.

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