I. The AI Transformation Supercycle: Drivers and Market Velocity
The current technological transformation driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Generative AI, represents a paradigm shift fundamentally distinct from previous automation waves. This supercycle is characterized by exponential market velocity, pervasive organizational adoption, and a foundational dependency on highly concentrated physical infrastructure, making it a critical strategic focus for global enterprises.
1.1. The Exponential Rise of Generative AI and LLMs
Generative AI, embodied by Large Language Models (LLMs) since late 2022, signifies a qualitative departure from historical automation processes, such as microelectronics or information technology.[1] Unlike previous technologies focused primarily on replicating predefined tasks, Generative AI introduces the ability to create new, original outputs.[1] This novel capability has directly shifted automation pressure toward specialized knowledge work, making educated white-collar workers earning up to $80,000 annually the most likely cohort to be immediately affected by workforce automation.[2]
The financial velocity accompanying this shift is extraordinary. The combined generative AI software and services market has skyrocketed from a modest $191 million in 2022 to surpass $25.6 billion in 2024, according to market analysis.[3] This acceleration validates the rapid integration of AI-driven capabilities across various industries and is reflected in the increased frequency with which chief executive officers (CEOs) discuss AI applications in quarterly earnings calls.[3]
This market growth is paralleled by unprecedented adoption rates. Data from the Real-Time Population Survey (RPS) in August 2024 revealed that almost 40% of the U.S. population between the ages of 18 and 64 utilized generative AI to some degree.[4] While usage at home (32.6%) was slightly more prevalent than at work (28.1%), the intensity of use suggests deep professional integration. Crucially, daily generative AI usage was significantly more frequent in the workplace (10.6% daily) compared to use at home (6.4% daily).[4] This evidence signals that the technology is providing immediate, measurable productive utility within enterprise workflows. While studies have reported relatively low formal firm-wide adoption in production environments, the high frequency of daily usage by individual workers indicates a massive, decentralized utilization of these tools, often bypassing formal IT channels. This discrepancy suggests that a significant portion of AI-driven productivity gains is currently uncaptured by official organizational metrics, implying that the true macroeconomic impact of the transformation is currently understated and will be followed by a substantial, delayed wave of enterprise return on investment (ROI) as centralized systems and procurement catch up to employee-driven utility.
1.2. The Hardware Bottleneck and Foundational Infrastructure Requirements
The AI supercycle is fundamentally constrained by its physical foundation: specialized computing hardware. The data center GPU market has grown remarkably, reaching $125 billion, with one company, NVIDIA, holding a highly dominant 92% market share.[3] This concentration in the supply of critical hardware creates a strategic risk, particularly in the context of escalating geopolitical competition for technological advantage.
The computational demands of advanced AI systems are driving an unprecedented need for infrastructure investment. The surging power consumption and capacity requirements of AI data centers are expected to result in a $1.5 trillion funding gap in project financing.[5] This capital requirement differs structurally from previous technological cycles. Unlike traditional cloud infrastructure, which was largely funded by the internal cash flows of large technology firms, the scale of the AI capacity gap necessitates drawing capital from a far broader investor base, including private equity, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), bank loans, public debt markets, and private credit.[5] This shift underscores the magnitude of AI infrastructure as a global asset class.
For regulated industries, such as financial services, the infrastructure mandate goes beyond mere capacity; it requires “AI-ready” environments that prioritize compliance by design.[6] Financial regulators increasingly expect compliance mechanisms to be embedded within the infrastructure itself, rather than added as an afterthought. This means that foundational architectural principles must include encryption, robust role-based access controls, immutable audit logs, and data residency controls necessary to meet rigorous regulatory mandates like GDPR and PCI-DSS.[6] The necessity of embedded compliance transforms infrastructure from a passive cost center into an active regulatory enforcement mechanism. Firms that fail to invest proactively in compliant, AI-ready architecture face a strategic disadvantage, experiencing higher friction in achieving regulatory approval and significantly slower time-to-market for high-value AI applications. Consequently, market advantage will accrue to those institutions that treat AI infrastructure as a critical competitive differentiator built for speed, scale, and compliance from the outset.
II. Economic Restructuring: Labor, Productivity, and Value Creation
The AI transformation is fundamentally reshaping global labor markets, moving past simple displacement to complex job creation and a massive acceleration in the demand for new, specialized skills. This restructuring is already producing measurable returns in both wages and organizational productivity.
2.1. The Nuance of Job Churn: Net Creation Amidst Transformation
Analysis from the World Economic Forum (WEF) indicates that the primary economic challenge is one of transition management, not scarcity of work. Forecasts suggest that while AI will displace 75 million jobs globally, it will simultaneously create 133 million new jobs by 2025, resulting in a net gain of 58 million new opportunities.[7] This finding reframes the necessity for large-scale corporate investment in reskilling and workforce transition programs.
However, the impact is not uniformly distributed. Research from institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and OpenAI suggests a specific exposure bias toward educated white-collar professionals.[2] These workers, who often handle complex cognitive tasks, are now subject to automation pressures that historically affected only manual labor. Across organizations, there are differing perspectives on the immediate employment impact: 32% of survey respondents expect workforce size decreases in the coming year, while 43% expect no change, and only 13% expect increases.[8]
Understanding the future structure of work requires defining the optimal balance between AI automation and human-AI augmentation. Analytical models demonstrate that the most effective use of AI depends on the complementarity of the task.[9] Automation is favored for routine, repetitive tasks (high between-task complementarity), while augmentation is optimal for complex tasks where human judgment and AI analysis reinforce each other (high within-task complementarity).[9] Empirical validation suggests an optimal work configuration where AI automates relatively easy tasks, augments humans on tasks with similar performance levels, and humans work independently on relatively difficult tasks that require high-level judgment and expertise.[9] The high exposure of white-collar roles, combined with this augmentation model, underscores a critical shift in labor value: human capital will generate value primarily through mastering high-level, complex judgment, problem-solving, and strategic thinking—the skills necessary to handle those “difficult tasks” that remain beyond the scope of current AI automation.
2.2. The AI Wage Premium and the Accelerating Skill Quake
The economic value generated by AI is already translating into tangible financial returns for both companies and skilled workers. Analysis of nearly a billion global job advertisements confirms that industries most exposed to AI are seeing wages rise at double the rate (2x faster) compared to those least exposed.[10] This rapid wage growth confirms that AI is making workers more valuable, leading to rising compensation for “AI-powered workers,” even within roles that are deemed highly automatable.[10]
Organizational performance corroborates this trend: industries positioned to adopt AI effectively have achieved a 3x higher growth in revenue per worker since 2022, the year Generative AI debuted.[10] This provides direct, measurable evidence that corporate investments in AI are resulting in significant productivity gains and increased value creation.[10]
The market also assigns a substantial premium to specific AI literacy. Workers possessing identified AI skills, such as prompt engineering, command an average 56% wage premium, a figure that has more than doubled from the 25% premium observed previously.[10] This premium is paid across every industry analyzed, indicating a universal demand for AI proficiency.[10] The substantial valuation placed on prompt engineering—the ability to interact effectively with LLMs—reveals that critical thinking and precise communication are the immediate, high-leverage bottlenecks preventing organizations from fully realizing AI’s economic benefits. Since AI systems are highly dependent on the quality of input, the ability to frame effective queries is the skill that generates the highest measurable ROI, thus commanding the premium.
Crucially, the required skills for AI-exposed jobs are changing 66% faster than for other roles, a rate that is 2.5 times faster than the previous year.[10] This acceleration defines an “AI-driven skills earthquake,” particularly affecting automatable roles, and mandates continuous, proactive upskilling to maintain workforce relevance and organizational competitiveness.
| Table 1: Generative AI Market Velocity and Labor Impact Metrics (2022-2025) |
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| Metric |
| — |
| Generative AI Market Size (Software & Services) |
| Data Center GPU Market Size |
| U.S. Population (18-64) AI Use |
| Net Job Creation Forecast (WEF 2025) |
| AI Skills Wage Premium (e.g., Prompt Engineering) |
| Rate of Skill Change in AI-Exposed Jobs |
III. Sectoral Case Studies: Deep Impact Analysis
The immediate, high-value impact of the AI transformation is best demonstrated through its restructuring of core functions within highly regulated and technical sectors, including finance, healthcare, and education.
3.1. Financial Services and Capital Markets: The Edge in Risk and Compliance
In financial services, AI is fundamentally changing the mechanisms of risk management and compliance. Traditional risk models rely heavily on static data and are prone to human error, but AI-powered systems utilize dynamic data and advanced machine learning to identify potential risks in real-time.[11] These systems monitor a vast array of indicators—market trends, economic data, and social media sentiment—allowing institutions to detect early signs of market volatility or economic downturns and take proactive measures to mitigate risks and ensure stability.[11]
Furthermore, AI algorithms offer superior financial fraud detection capabilities. Traditional detection systems rely on predefined, static rules that sophisticated perpetrators can easily bypass. In contrast, AI systems continuously learn from new transaction data, detecting anomalies and unusual patterns, thereby responding to emerging threats more effectively and enhancing overall security.[11]
In the complex area of compliance and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trading, AI significantly improves accuracy and timeliness. Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms can rapidly scan lengthy and complex documentation, such as International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) agreements and swap documentation, ensuring adherence to terms and extracting critical risk factors for modeling.[12] This ability provides financial firms and regulators with earlier warnings of potential trouble.[12]
Despite the clear benefits, regulators remain cautious about the potential risks posed by “algorithmic monoculture” in derivatives trading.[12] If a large number of market participants adopt similar AI algorithms, a collective response to the same signal could amplify volatility. This systemic risk necessitates that financial institutions employ diverse modeling approaches and maintain robust human oversight.[12] This regulatory concern acts as a strong economic signal, indicating that standardized AI solutions are inherently vulnerable. Consequently, competitive advantage in finance will increasingly depend on building proprietary models that ensure differentiated market behavior, compelling firms to prioritize internal AI development over generic vendor solutions.
3.2. Healthcare and Biotechnology: The Exponential Discovery Cycle
In healthcare, AI is transforming both drug discovery and patient care at a pace previously unimaginable. The core strategy is the “lab in a loop,” which involves training AI models with massive quantities of clinical and experimental data to generate precise predictions about disease targets and potential medicine designs.[13] These predictions are then tested by scientists, with the experimental results feeding back into the models for continuous refinement, effectively compressing multi-year research cycles into computational timelines.[13]
One of the most profound scientific breakthroughs driven by deep learning is the accurate prediction of protein structure.[14] This advancement has largely solved the 50-year-old grand challenge of protein folding at the fold level for single-domain proteins.[14, 15] This capability allows biologists to use computational structure prediction as a core tool, particularly useful for difficult-to-crystallize proteins like membrane proteins.[15] The successful application of deep learning converts protein folding from a linear, time-intensive laboratory bottleneck into an exponential computational process. This transformation redefines the competitive landscape in biotechnology, where access to powerful computing resources and specialized models becomes the primary determinant of R&D speed and ultimate success.
AI is also advancing personalized treatments, such as its application in cancer vaccines, where models select the most promising neoantigens (tumor-specific mutations) to create highly effective, individualized therapies.[13] Furthermore, pharmaceutical companies like Sanofi and Novartis are leveraging AI to accelerate patient recruitment processes for clinical trials, leading directly to quicker and more efficient therapy development and delivery.[16]
3.3. Education and Workforce Development: Personalized Learning at Scale
AI is serving as the backbone for the necessary shift toward flexible, student-centered learning models globally.[17] The technology’s benefits are numerous, primarily enhancing personalized learning by tailoring educational content to each student’s unique learning pace and style.[17, 18]
Simultaneously, AI significantly reduces the non-teaching burden on educators by automating time-consuming administrative tasks, including grading, scheduling, and report generation.[18] This administrative relief is critical, allowing faculty to take a more engaged role in the classroom, focusing on mentoring and higher-order instruction.[17] AI also provides educators with deeper, data-driven insights through specialized dashboards, enabling institutions to analyze learning patterns, refine curriculum design, and allocate resources more effectively, leading to evidence-based decisions that enhance long-term student outcomes.[17]
The integration of AI necessitates a new professional role for educators, moving them from being knowledge conduits to being facilitators of critical engagement. By reducing administrative workload and providing real-time data, AI compels educators to intervene earlier and provide targeted, individualized support.[17] Moreover, AI holds promise as a catalyst for continuous professional development, with emerging research suggesting that it can help accelerate learning and skill development, providing agile, scalable, high-quality training through platforms like Coursera and edX to match the accelerating rate of skill change in the global workforce.[19]
IV. Geopolitical Competition and the New Supply Chain (The Tech Cold War)
The global dominance of AI is not merely an economic competition but an escalating geopolitical struggle defined by techno-nationalism and strategic control over foundational technologies. This rivalry centers on the AI supply chain, creating both strategic chokepoints and a profound human capital crisis.
4.1. Techno-Nationalism and Strategic Decoupling
The geopolitical landscape is undergoing a profound transformation driven by an escalating, high-stakes competition for control over the Artificial Intelligence supply chain.[20] This “Tech Cold War” encompasses not only software and algorithms but the foundational physical resources, advanced hardware, and specialized manufacturing capabilities.[20]
The rivalry, primarily between the United States and China but involving key players like the EU, Japan, and Taiwan, dictates future economic growth and global power distribution.[20] This dynamic is accelerating strategic decoupling, particularly concerning advanced semiconductors, which possess a critical “dual-use” nature for both civilian and military applications.[21] Export controls and sanctions are being deployed as “strategic weapons” by the US to limit adversaries’ access to essential components, while targeted nations retaliate with restrictions on crucial raw materials.[20]
The strategic importance of this struggle is underscored by the understanding that infrastructure choices and strategic alliances formed in this period are poised to lock in decades of AI power distribution.[20] A failure to secure domestic or allied semiconductor capabilities now is recognized as resulting in a permanent, compounding technological disadvantage. Despite stringent chip restrictions, China is demonstrating resilient advancement in AI models.[21] Furthermore, Beijing is expected to aggressively ramp up manufacturing capacity for mature-node semiconductors (28nm and larger).[21] This strategy focuses on reducing reliance on imports for critical industrial sectors, ranging from automotive to consumer electronics, ensuring industrial resilience even while constrained on bleeding-edge chips.
4.2. The Critical Talent Shortage: The “Silicon Ceiling”
The foundational bedrock of the AI era—the semiconductor industry—is confronting a structural crisis: an escalating talent shortage. This deficit is projected to require over one million additional skilled workers worldwide by 2030, threatening to impede innovation and global supply chains.[22, 23]
This human capital deficit represents a “silicon ceiling,” severely constraining the rapid advancement of technologies like AI, 5G, and electric vehicles.[22, 23] The shortage is driven by a sustained, explosive demand for chips across nearly every sector, coupled with an aging workforce and an insufficient pipeline of new talent in specialized disciplines.[23] The immediate consequence is profound: new fabrication plants (fabs) risk operating under capacity or sitting idle, and product development cycles face delays.[22] This deficit threatens to undermine the substantial governmental investments, such as the U.S. CHIPS Act, designed to secure supply chains and bolster technological leadership.[23] Therefore, specialized human capital, rather than material components, has emerged as the single most critical bottleneck constraining the AI revolution. Geopolitical strategy must necessarily shift its focus from merely controlling chip production to aggressively competing for the acquisition, retention, and training of highly specialized engineers and technicians.
4.3. Dual-Use Technology and Military Applications
The integration of AI capabilities into military systems is expected to increase steadily, given the serious ramifications AI holds for modern warfighting.[24] This integration presents a range of risks that require deliberate attention. These include ethical risks from a humanitarian standpoint, operational risks concerning the reliability, security, and fragility of autonomous systems, and strategic risks, such as the possibility that AI could increase the likelihood of war or escalate ongoing conflicts.[24]
Despite ongoing discussions within the United Nations regarding the regulation of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS), an international ban or binding regulation on military AI is not considered likely in the near term.[24] In this regulatory vacuum, nations endorsing responsible military use emphasize compliance with applicable international law, particularly international humanitarian law.[25] There is a broad consensus regarding the necessity of human accountability; military use of AI must be subject to a responsible human chain of command and control.[24, 25] The locus of responsibility should rest with commanders, and human involvement must take place across the entire life cycle of each system, including its development and regulation.[24]
V. Governance, Ethics, and Legal Friction
The rapid deployment of Generative AI has outpaced the establishment of coherent global governance frameworks, resulting in regulatory divergence, amplifying systemic ethical risks, and introducing profound legal friction, particularly concerning intellectual property.
5.1. Global Regulatory Divergence and Risk Classification
Regulatory responses to AI are currently diverging along two major philosophical lines. The European Union has pioneered the first comprehensive regulation, the EU AI Act, which employs a risk-based approach.[26] This regulation bans applications and systems that create an unacceptable risk, such as government-run social scoring.[26] High-risk applications, like CV-scanning tools that rank job applicants, are subjected to specific legal requirements, while low-risk applications are largely left unregulated.[26]
In contrast, the United States has prioritized technological competition and innovation speed. A key executive order articulated the need for a “minimally burdensome” federal standard for AI regulation, intended to preempt and challenge what are viewed as complex, cumbersome patchwork regulations created by individual states.[27] This approach explicitly aims to unify the US competitive stance against rivals like China.[27]
This deep divergence between the EU’s risk-averse, prohibitive approach and the US’s pro-innovation, federal standardization creates significant policy friction for multinational corporations. Businesses must navigate conflicting requirements, which often necessitates adopting the most stringent standard globally or engaging in regulatory arbitrage to maximize deployment speed in favorable jurisdictions. Against this backdrop, international bodies like the OECD and UNESCO provide crucial frameworks. The OECD AI Principles, updated in 2024, set standards for trustworthiness, promoting values such as transparency, accountability, human rights, and safety.[28] These foundational principles are being adopted by major regulators, including the EU, the US, and the UN, providing a necessary basis for global interoperability.[28, 29]
5.2. Systemic Ethical Risks: Bias, Misinformation, and Alignment
The rapid scaling of AI has foregrounded several systemic ethical risks. Algorithmic bias, often inherited from historically skewed training data, can lead to real-world harm. For instance, Amazon’s hiring algorithm was found to systematically downgrade the resumes of women due to the historical gender bias present in its HR datasets.[30] Similarly, LinkedIn’s algorithms were found to favor male candidates over equally qualified female counterparts and, in some cases, suggest male alternatives when users searched for common female names.[31] While criminal liability in these cases is rare, discriminatory automated decision-making (ADM) outputs frequently lead to civil and regulatory consequences, requiring transparency and accountability in system design.[30]
Misaligned AI systems also actively contribute to political polarization and the spread of misinformation. Social media recommendation engines, optimized for user engagement, prioritize posts, videos, and articles that generate the highest interaction, such as attention-grabbing political misinformation.[32] This outcome is often misaligned with the users’ true well-being or values like truthfulness.[32] This process is compounded by platform manipulation, where bots boost the reach of fake news, even if the ultimate decision to share rests with human users.[33]
The core technical challenge underlying these risks is the AI alignment problem: ensuring highly capable AI systems are harmless and aligned with human intent.[34] Challenges include instilling complex human values, achieving scalable oversight and interpretability, and preventing emergent deceptive behaviors like power-seeking or “reward hacking,” where the AI optimizes for a proxy metric instead of the true human value.[32, 35]
| Table 2: Comparative Global AI Governance and Strategic Risks |
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| Governance/Risk Domain |
| — |
| Regulatory Divergence |
| Intellectual Property |
| Systemic Bias |
| AI Alignment |
5.3. Intellectual Property (IP) and the Crisis of Creativity
Generative AI has precipitated a global crisis in intellectual property, spawning a variety of copyright lawsuits. In the United States, authors and news publishers have sued major AI developers, alleging that the training processes of their LLMs and the resulting outputs involve impermissible copying of copyrighted material.[36]
This technological capability also enables highly convincing misuse of identity. Platforms like Sora can mimic a person’s voice and appearance, facilitating the creation of deepfakes.[37] While some platforms implement restrictions, users have found ways to bypass them, raising significant ethical issues regarding the misuse of likeness, particularly concerning deceased individuals who cannot legally combat this exploitation.[37]
Legally, AI cannot currently be considered a subject of civil rights or decide the fate of its own creations.[36] Copyright protection is typically granted only for the human arrangement of materials as a result of human creative activity, not for the originality of the images or content generated directly by the AI.[36] This ongoing legal uncertainty poses a grave issue for creatives. If they cannot assert control over their work used as training data, or receive fair compensation, the integrity and quantity of future human-generated creative property—which serves as the foundational fuel for subsequent AI models—is threatened with systematic devaluation.[37]
VI. Strategic Imperatives: Alignment, Talent, and Long-Term Resilience
The successful navigation of the AI transformation requires not just technological investment, but a proactive strategy focused on systemic alignment, continuous human capital development, and institutional resilience against global risk.
6.1. The AI Alignment Challenge: Bridging the Safety-Ethics Divide
A critical vulnerability in the development of trustworthy AI is the structural and institutional divide separating the research fields of AI Safety (focused on existential risk and scaled intelligence) and AI Ethics (focused on present harms, social bias, and production pipeline flaws).[34] Quantitative analysis reveals that the vast majority of collaborations (over 80%) occur within these silos, with cross-field connectivity depending on a small number of bridging actors.[34]
This institutional segregation risks building AI systems that are either technically robust but ethically unjust (e.g., highly reliable systems that systematically scale historical bias) or ethically sound but technically fragile. Integrating technical safety work with normative ethics, through shared benchmarks and mixed methodologies, is essential for developing AI systems that are both robust and just.[34] Since the challenge of alignment involves instilling complex, often subjective human values [35], the technical solution cannot bypass the necessity of human judgment and philosophical clarity. Institutional investment in developing ethical frameworks and integrating social science expertise into AI development teams is no longer optional; it is a prerequisite for mitigating systemic, large-scale harm.
6.2. Organizational Adaptation and Continuous Workforce Strategy
To capture maximum value from the AI supercycle, organizations must execute a well-defined digital transformation strategy focused on workforce development.[38] This begins with clearly defining new AI roles—such as data scientists, AI/ML specialists, and AI-savvy business analysts—to tailor training programs that address both foundational skills and advanced expertise.[38]
The required skillset for the AI era extends far beyond technical proficiency in machine learning and data analysis.[39] The most critical skills for 2025 include core cognitive attributes: Critical Thinking, Ethics and Bias Awareness, and Collaboration.[39] Critical thinking is essential because it allows individuals to evaluate the reliability, contextual appropriateness, and potential bias of AI-generated outputs, ensuring that human users remain in control and guide the AI responsibly.[39] Without this human oversight, organizations risk basing high-stakes decisions (in healthcare, finance, or hiring) on unvalidated, potentially biased results.
Given the accelerating pace of skill change (66% faster in exposed jobs), lifelong learning must become the new organizational norm.[40] To match this speed, institutions must leverage agile, scalable educational avenues, such as massive open online course platforms (MOOCs) and stackable microcredentials, allowing employees to continuously upskill and adapt to shifting skill demands throughout their careers.[19]
6.3. Navigating the “Heaven or Hell” Scenario
The trajectory of the AI transformation is best understood through the framework of the “Heaven or Hell” scenario [41], where the utopian future of reduced work and shared prosperity contrasts starkly with a dystopian outcome defined by destabilized institutions and widening societal inequality.[1] Both optimists and pessimists agree that the outcome hinges entirely on whether the resultant prosperity is distributed throughout society and if human oversight and control are successfully maintained.[1]
The path toward the positive trajectory requires strategic resilience built upon three critical pillars:
1. Infrastructure Security and Capital Alignment: Organizations must address the $1.5 trillion infrastructure financing gap by securing diversified capital structures and mandating compliant, AI-ready architecture from the outset.[5, 6]
2. Human Capital Dominance: Winning the global talent race requires aggressive acquisition and retention strategies, particularly for specialized semiconductor engineering talent (to overcome the “silicon ceiling”) and immediate investment in high-judgment cognitive skills (critical thinking, ethics, and prompt engineering) across the entire workforce.[23, 39]
3. Governance Maturity: Policymakers and industry leaders must move beyond fragmented policies to establish unified, integrated safety and ethics standards, proactively mitigating systemic risks such as algorithmic bias, misinformation, and the risk of algorithmic monoculture in critical financial markets.[12, 34]
The AI transformation is not merely an exercise in technological deployment but a profound test of global institutional capacity. Success will be determined by the ability of organizations and governments to proactively manage the technology’s exponential speed, enforce ethical guardrails, and ensure that the unprecedented wealth creation generated by AI is widely distributed, thereby fulfilling the potential for a new era of productivity and social advancement.
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