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The consensus among studies is that AI will significantly impact the global economy. However, forecasts vary widely, with some estimating a doubling of growth in GDP and others predicting more modest increases driven by increased productivity, automation, and innovation. This positive outlook on AI’s economic impact has led to a surge in investment in AI technologies. Nevertheless, despite significant investments, the economic returns on AI have been yet limited, and effective ways to turn these investments into profit are still being explored. Moreover, AI’s economic impact varies across regions and it might be less pronounced in developing countries, potentially widening the global inequality gap. Given the macroeconomic challenges of AI, appropriate responses are still needed, including addressing global inequality, productivity gains, labor market disruptions, and changes in international trade.
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George-Laurențiu Șerban-Oprescu
is a faculty professor habil. at the Department of Economic Doctrines and Communication and vice-dean in charge with research and internationalization at the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Economics. With over two decades of experience, he has designed and taught courses in economic doctrines, epistemology, and communication networks. His research interests lie at the intersection of economic doctrines and epistemology, with a particular emphasis on quality of life, education for sustainable development, migration patterns, and the digitalization of society. Over the past twenty years, he has authored numerous scholarly articles and contributed significantly to various books and collective studies.
Silvia Elena Iacob
holds the position of Dean of the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Economics at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, where she is a professor habilitated within the Department of Economic Doctrines and Communication and a doctoral supervisor at the Economics I Doctoral School. With over 15 years of academic experience, she has developed and delivered courses in economic doctrines and financial communication. Her research interests focus on the intersection of economics and business communication, with a special emphasis on education, technological innovation, and environmental policy. In the last decade, she has authored numerous scholarly articles and made substantial contributions to collective research studies.
Isabel Novo-Corti
is a professor of Economics at the University of A Coruña (UDC). Member of the inter-university research group ECOBAS and director of the University Institute of Maritime Studies, coordinator of the Research Group on Economic Development and Social Sustainability (EDaSS) at the UDC and collaborating member of the SET-LASE research group on socio-economics of labour, at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She has been director of the Department of Economic Analysis and Business Administration, among other management positions. Her research is framed in socio-economics, technology and sustainability, in particular, labour market, poverty, inequality, social exclusion, ICT and gender. She also works in the field of maritime studies. She has numerous scientific publications in international journals indexed in WoS and SJR, as well as contributions in books and book chapters in the most prestigious international publishers. She has received several international research awards. She has participated in national and international research projects: Currently Principal Researcher for the UDC of the European INSEAI project on informality in the labour market; Researcher for the Galician Government in the Project for the analysis of the ethics of the impact of the AI implantation. She is a regular contributor to the Mercados supplement of the newspaper La Voz de Galicia and member of the Galician Economic Forum.
