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Speaking on a panel at Dreamforce in San Francisco, Paul Daugherty said he believed there was "tremendous substance" behind the hype around AI. "We've never seen a technology that's moved as fast as AI has to impact business and society," Daugherty said. "We believe this is by far the fastest-moving technology we've ever tracked, and we're just getting started." He referred to research that the consultancy giant recently carried out alongside Frontier Economics that suggested AI could deliver a 38% improvement in worker productivity by 2035, and add between $15tn (£11.4tn) and $20tn to the economic output of the world's 12 largest economies. Daugherty argued that the narrative of AI replacing human jobs was given too much emphasis. "It's easy to see jobs that are eliminated, such as long-haul truck drivers," he said.