By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
August 12, 2026
Most of AI isn't productive, it's just another form of consumption.
Like GDP (Gross Domestic Product), economic Productivity is an unquenchable spring of delusions, delusions being pushed to new heights of delirium by promises of endless leaps of productivity as AI is deployed in every nook and cranny of the global economy.
Let's start with what Productivity measures.