Artificial intelligence / news brief
Apollo finds no aggregate AI payoff yet across the S&P 493
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Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok says revenue per worker and profit margins are flat for the S&P 500 outside seven large tech companies, while economy-wide productivity shows no visible AI boost. The charts document aggregate correlations, not company-level AI adoption or causality, so they cannot prove that individual deployments produced zero returns.
Why it matters
The analysis shifts the AI return debate from vendor case studies to broad financial indicators, while showing why adoption data and causal controls still matter.
Sources
- No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector (external site)Apollo Global Management · primary source ·
- AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, according to Apollo economist (external site)TechCrunch · coverage ·
- Apollo: AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' to corporate America (external site)Business Insider · coverage ·