A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Silicon Valley techno-optimists promise AI will herald a utopia. Others fear an AI apocalypse. But while such outcomes seem extreme, if even a middling version of the AI revolution comes, the economic outcomes would be staggering.

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