OpenAI founder Sam Altman floated the idea of an AI bubble, an MIT report found that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing and tech stocks took a dip.

With the AI sector is expected to become a trillion dollar industry within the next decade, what impact might slowing progress have on the economy? NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Cal Newport, a contributing writer for the New Yorker, and a computer science professor at Georgetown, about the limitations of the AI revolution.

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