Published Sep 15, 2026, 6:00 AM ET · Updated 2 months ago · 1 source

What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off

MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
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When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called…