Others foresee a revolution that might add between US$17 trillion and $26 trillion to annual global economic output and automate up to half of today's jobs by 2045. But even before the full impacts materialize, beliefs about our AI future affect the economy today - steering young people's career choices, guiding government policy and driving vast investment flows into semiconductors and other components of data centres.
Last year, Oxford University Press actually named "brain rot" the "Oxford Word of the Year." They offer a more formal definition: "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration."