Lunch Program | The Productivity Shock: Is AI Rewriting the Global Growth Model?

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? The discussion will propose how AI might alter the global growth model, widen or tighten cross-country divergence, influence capital investment cycles, redefine the productivity frontier, and build a modern workforce for the next decade.