https://aifaultline.com/authors/k-vaishnav-gandhi/New papers by K Vaishnav Gandhi in the AI Fault Line guide, and news naming them. https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-5281-zenodo-21187433/https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-5281-zenodo-21187433/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000A literature synthesis of 2022–2025 studies on generative AI in SMEs, finding a persistent "awareness–adoption gap": SMEs increasingly know about AI's productivity and customer-engagement potential but implementation lags due to cost, skills shortages, organizational resistance, and cybersecurity concerns. It matters because SMEs are the bulk of employment in most economies, so if AI diffusion stalls at the SME level, aggregate productivity gains from AI will be concentrated in large firms and slow to show up in macro data—reinforcing the diffusion-lag view of AI's economic impact.