Economists Are Comparing the AI Boom to the Industrial Revolution—Not in a Good Way
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When economists start invoking the Industrial Revolution as a warning, they’re flagging distributional shocks, not just productivity gains. Leaders planning AI programs should be mapping which roles and regions inside their own orgs bear the adjustment cost, not assuming macro growth will paper it over.
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