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Alan Murray, Nicholas Gordon

Generative A.I. could add $4.4 trillion to the global economy

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking in Tokyo. (Credit: Akio Kon—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Generative A.I. has captured the attention of nearly every company, but many are still unsure what to do with it. The folks at the McKinsey Global Institute have a new report out today that looks at potential use cases. And they see plenty. “Generative A.I. could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually across the 63 use cases we analyzed”—an amount they note is around the size of the United Kingdom’s GDP.

Interestingly, 75% of the value they found comes from four use cases, which are already starting to take hold:

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