Nobel laureate Paul Romer sees diminishing returns for AI, as FDI still ‘killer app’ for emerging economies
“The growth of digital technology hasn’t in the past ushered us into this new era of much more rapid productivity growth, and I doubt that it’s going to do it now,” Romer told the South China Morning Post on the sidelines of the UBS Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday. “So I think the perception that somehow everything has changed is like the perception that cyber currencies are going to change the world.”