AI economic gains likely to outweigh emissions cost, says IMF

Economic gains from artificial intelligence will boost global output by around 0.5 per cent a year between 2025 and 2030, outweighing the costs of rising carbon emissions by the data centres needed to run AI models, the International Monetary Fund said this week.

An IMF report released at its annual spring meeting in Washington nonetheless noted that those output gains would not be shared equally across the world, and called