“You've got to start with overall productivity. Artificial intelligence, today's form, is going to generate $4 trillion of annual productivity before the end of the decade. That is incredible economic competitiveness for companies and nations.”
Chairman and CEO, IBM
Said Jan 16, 2024Deadline Dec 31, 2029World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 panel, 'Generative AI: Steam Engine of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?', Davos, January 16, 2024
Resolves against estimates of annual global productivity/output gains attributable to generative AI by the end of 2029; Krishna has repeated the $4 trillion figure since (e.g. SXSW 2025), while other houses have since published higher ranges.