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AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output

AI's economic value remains largely invisible to GDP, creating 'Dark Output.' The article explores substitution and new dark output, and how service sector measurement flaws mask AI productivity, risking misreads of growth and bubbles.

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AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output
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  • AI output is real before it is measurable; only token spend is captured in GDP.
  • Substitution dark output: AI replaces human tasks, but value vanishes from accounts. New dark output: AI creates new work with no prior wage basis.
  • Service-sector GDP relies on receipts and surveys, missing AI-driven productivity gains.
  • Market signals like wage increases in AI-exposed sectors despite falling employment are fingerprints of dark output.

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