Fed Chair Warsh Calls AI a 'Hinge Point in History'—4 Key Things He Said
In briefFed Chair Kevin Warsh dedicated a full section of his Jackson Hole keynote to artificial intelligence, calling the current moment a “hinge point in history.”Warsh said annualized sales at the two leading AI labs now top $100 billion, an increase of more than 500% from a year earlier, and confirmed the Fed now treats AI as “potentially a new factor of production.”Warsh flagged that hes watching AIs “second derivative”—whether capital-spending growth is still accelerating. Kevin Warshs first Jackson Hole keynote as Federal Reserve chair made headlines mostly for what he refused to say about interest rates. But in the middle of the speech, under the header “Preparing for Future Policy Conjunctures,” sits the section that matters most for anyone tracking where AI money is actually flowing. Warsh opened it by describing the mood before AI took off: Economists spent the years after the 2008 crisis warning of “secular stagnation,” a world with too much capital chasing too few good investments because, as Warsh put it, “all the good stuff had been invented.” That thesis, he said, no longer holds. Myriad: What will the Fed do in September？ Click to make your prediction. He backed it with numbers. Business capital expenditures—what he called “the
