🔮 AI economies; tech nationalism; super freelancers; responsible platforms; mosquitoes & tennis players++ #182

Dept of the near future

🌐 McKinsey reckons that AI could deliver an additional $13 trillion GDP to the global economy by 2030. This reflects a 16% uplift and is in line with forecasts made last year by Accenture & PwC. These forecasts are very helpful because they do remind us that there is likely to be a dividend from this technology. McKinsey also points out something we’ve argued before that the “adoption of AI could widen gaps among countries, companies, and workers.” One weird prediction, though, is that 30% of firms do not intend to implement AI by 2030, to which I reply: “Do they intend to stop using the internet?” AI will be ubiquitous and unavoidable by then.

🖇 Fascinating presentation by Michael Osborne on the future of work. Osborne was one of the authors of 2013 study that forecast widespread technological job displacement. One key observation: "It took sixty years for the English industrial revolution to improve the wages of workers."

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