The AI Revolution: A New Paradigm of Economic Order
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Henning Vöpel
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a new technological revolution that has far-reaching, somehow paradigmatic implications for the economy and as well as for the society – for good and for evil. Given the specific properties of artificial intelligence this article analyses the economic consequences of AI on productivity and growth, the distribution of income as well as on firms, markets, and competition. It argues that artificial intelligence is creating a new economic order that requires new approaches to economic policy and regulation. Issues of how to maintain competition, protect consumer rights, promote AI literacy and preserve ethical standards are at the center of a holistic AI governance.
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- Editorial
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial: Productivity Growth in the Age of AI
- Policy Papers (No Special Focus)
- Inflation and Fiscal Policy: Is There a Threshold Effect in the Fiscal Reaction Function?
- Whither the Walking Dead? The Consequences of Artificial Intelligence for Zombie Firms
- The Energy Transition and Its Macroeconomic Effects
- The Potential and Distributional Effects of CBAM Revenues as a New EU Own Resource
- Will Geopolitics Accelerate China’s Drive Towards De-Dollarization?
- The Political Economy of Academic Freedom
- Policy Forum: Productivity Growth in the Age of AI
- Macroeconomic Productivity Effects of Artificial Intelligence
- New Technologies: End of Work or Structural Change?
- The AI Revolution: A New Paradigm of Economic Order
- The Interplay of Humans, Technology, and Organizations in Realizing AI’s Productivity Promise
- How Can Artificial Intelligence Transform Asset Management?
- Is the EU’s AI Act Merely a Distraction from Europe’s Productivity Problem?
- AI in Europe – Is Regulation the Answer to Being a Laggard?
