London — Hype or hope, this year’s boom in artificial intelligence along with other productivity-enhancing tech developments may be one of few ways to sustain an increasingly fragile “global balance sheet” over coming decades.

There is little doubt about the market heat, corporate alarm and social anxieties created in the mere six months since the breakthrough in “generative AI” tools took the world by storm. What it means for jobs, productivity, profit margins and even trustworthy information dominates the debate...

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