The anxiety-inducing question of what a company actually gets from their AI token spend is making it’s way into the field of economics:
The high stakes and scarcity of knowledge have given rise to a new field within economics devoted to figuring out how companies buy A.I. and what value they get from it. Call it tokenomics: the study of how this limited resource is created, traded and converted into things people want.
To summarize the underlying issue:
Corporate America was enthusiastic about artificial intelligence. Until it got the bill.
Yep. That sounds about right.