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John Burn-Murdoch

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Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | [email protected]

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NEW 🧵 on AI and productivity: Lots of people say this chart shows AI is now showing up in the productivity data. But I made the chart to argue the opposite: a trend that pre-dates AI + only shows up in the US doesn’t look like AI. Here’s how I’m thinking about the data and underlying dynamics:

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