Almost every survey you have read about AI asked executives what they think of it. Four central banks asked nearly six thousand senior executives what AI has actually done to their own companies. The answers do not match the conference stage.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• Why this survey is different — The authors bolted the same AI questions onto four panels that already existed: the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Survey of Business Uncertainty, the Bank of England's Decision Maker Panel, the Bundesbank's panel of German firms, and a monthly executive survey run out of Macquarie University in Sydney. Nearly six thousand firms, respondents unpaid and identity-verified. And when these executives forecast their own sales and headcount a year out, the forecasts come true.
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