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When the National Economic Council is saying AI’s productivity boost is undercounted, you should assume policy and capital will keep leaning into automation even if your internal metrics look flat. Operators need their own view of AI ROI and exposure—on both productivity and ethics—before regulators and investors impose one for them.
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