trailWidespread generative AI adoption could raise annual US labor productivity growth by about 1.5 percentage points over ten years
Widespread generative AI adoption could raise global GDP by about 7% over ten years
AI advances will increase US total factor productivity by less than one percent over ten years
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Generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs worldwide to automation
Roughly two-thirds of U.S. occupations are exposed to some degree of automation by AI
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For AI-exposed occupations, roughly a quarter to half of their workload could be automated
Access to a generative AI conversational assistant increases customer support agents' productivity by roughly 14-15% on average.
Generative AI assistance raises productivity far more for novice and low-skilled workers than for experienced, highly skilled workers.
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Generative AI is a significant contributor to the post-2022 acceleration in US labor productivity growth
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Rival estimates and slow diffusion· against
General-purpose technologies historically took decades before producing measurable aggregate productivity gains
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Generative AI chatbot adoption has had no detectable effect on worker earnings or hours within two years
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Widespread generative AI adoption could raise annual US labor productivity growth by about 1.5 percentage points over ten years
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