The abundance paradox: How to convert individual productivity into organizational gains

AI is making workers faster, but most companies aren’t getting richer. The difference comes from the system built around the tools, not the tools themselves.

In 1987, the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow famously observed, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Nearly four decades later, AI has produced a version of its own. Call it the abundance paradox.