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EPISODE · Aug 21, 2026 · 57 MIN

AI Needs to Nearly Triple Productivity to Pay Off (Second Request)

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To earn the return on its investment, artificial intelligence will need to nearly triple productivity in the U.S. economy. So what will it do?Today on Second Request, Executive Editor Teddy Downey sits down with Jessica Wachter, the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professor of Quantitative Finance at the Wharton School and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, to discuss her recent paper, "What Investment Data Implies About the AI Transition," co-authored with Jonathan Wachter.

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