I wonder if this might point to some efficiency loss coming from AI. Let me explain.

Say in 2015 they installed those smart refrigerators, they could go from 20 people monitoring temperatures to 1. That was some profits being made by those companies, and they got to enjoy those benefits until now.

With AI finding exploits for so many things people wouldn’t spend time looking, we might need to go back to dumb fridges out of security concerns.

Now extrapolate to many other industries, the economic gain from AI might be hampered.