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In 1882, The Pearl Street Generating Station offered electricity for household use. It took decades for this technology to reach 100 million people. In 2022, ChatGPT launched and reached 100 million active users in about two months.

We can feel the world changing around us. While we have well developed mechanisms to measure GDP, inflation, and employment, the world isn't well instrumented to understand how AI is changing the economy.

AI Economy Lab uses search volume to attempt at piecing the picture together in real-time. To understand job anxiety, opportunity seeking, upskilling demand, tool adoption, disillusionment, and expectations about an AI-transformed future. The patterns we're seeing suggest we're in the middle of something significant, nuanced, and rapidly evolving.