Artificial intelligence can make us smarter and faster

What is interesting is how little, year on year, this list changes. Transport investment, skills schemes and relatively fiddly tax incentives feature time and again. I used to be one of those officials: I worked in HM Treasury for three years in the "Productivity Unit". Our job was to study potential investments and problematic regulation to try and spot reforms that would improve the economic output per worker. It is not surprising the Treasury is obsessed by productivity.