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Gartner Puts the AI Productivity Gap at 50% Claimed Versus 16% Realized
The Register's September 14 piece on the pacing proposals carries a figure worth separating from the politics: Gartner researcher Daryl Plummer says software vendors claim 50% productivity gains from AI while customers report 16%. The article catalogs Amodei's three asks (embedded evaluators inside labs, common safety standards requiring government backing to coordinate legally, and democratic-authoritarian coordination on oversight) alongside his push to restrict Nvidia sales to China and crack down on distillation, and notes Speaker Mike Johnson and Trump both came out against on competitiveness grounds.
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