AI and Innovation

General-purpose technologies generate productivity growth not at the moment of invention, but when societies build the complementary assets — skills, infrastructure, institutions, and standards — that enable diffusion.

Dr Marina Yue Zhang in InnovationAus

I’m not completely sure I agree with the use of diffusion, here as it echoes Everett Rogers 1962 theory.

I would instead say that any technology won’t be adopted unless the structure of relationships between it and other technologies, policies, practices, and so on, allow that adoption to be sustained.

So if you have powerful regulatory frameworks that enable or even encourage adoption of AI, then you are creating the conditions for that to be more likely.

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