Artificial intelligence and data sharing

In the context of the digital economy, data is often referred to as the new fuel driving the economy. This comparison has its origin in the title of a May 2017 report by The Economist entitled "The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data". The saying "data is a new oil" became a kind of cliché. While this comparison is highly evocative, it doesn't fully reflect reality. There are a number of differences between how oil and data affect the economy.