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Milken Institute Global Conference: The Productivity Shock: Is AI Rewriting the Global Growth Model?

May 5, 2026
After more than a decade of sluggish growth in productivity across advanced economies, AI is now positioned as a potential inflection point for global output, capital formation, and long-term economic expansion. Yet it remains to be seen whether AI will deliver sustained productivity gains or simply reallocate value within existing systems. Experts in this session will examine whether AI represents a true structural growth catalyst capable of reshaping GDP trajectories, inflation dynamics, labor and capital balance, and sovereign competitiveness, or are expectations are outrunning measurable economic impact?